Panda Bear

 Kingdom : Animalia 

    Characteristics:

• Multicellular with specialized eukaryotic cells

• rely on other organisms for nourishment

• ingest food and digest food in an eternal cavity

• have thier own means of locomotion

Phylum: Chordata 

    Characteristics:

• Bilaterally symmetrical bodies ( the right side and left side of the body are a mirror image of each other.)

• at some point of their life cycle they have a gills slits or pouched used to obtain oxygen in a liquid environment 

• Have a notochord at some phase of their life cycle

• Members often have a head, tail and digestive system with openings at both ends of their body

Class: Mammalia 

    Characteristics:

• Conceive their young within the reproductive tract of the mother

• Nourish young with milk produced by the mother's mammary glands 

• Are heterodonts ( that means that they have a variety of specialized teeth)

• are heterondonts ( that means they are warm blooded)

• they have hair and sweat glands

• they have a 4 heart chamber 

• they have a complex nervous system 

• they have large brains

Order: Carnivora 

    Characteristics:

• They have premolars 

• They eat meat ( But not all carnivores eat meat ; panda bears are vegetarian)

Family: Ursidae 

   Characteristics:

• They are found on all continents (except Australia)

• They hairy soles

• Their skulls are elongated

Genius: Ailuropoda

   Characteristics :

•    Body of a panda is white except for its ears, eye patches, muzzle, hindlimbs, forelimbs, and shoulders which are black.

Species: Ailuropoda Melanoleuca

   Characteristics:

• They have opposable thumbs. Panda's leave their mothers at 18 months.  They live in cool, damp, forests.

   References:

picture#1: ditto.com

http://www.ziplink.net/~bmcslord/panda.html

Poem

Panda's are black and white.

They are such a beautiful sight.

They are amazing animals

that walk on all fours.

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