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热点话题3.2 中国大熊猫(二)
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(1)大熊猫生存状况和生活特征、习性
(2)大熊猫的特殊食性和“伪拇指”
(3)旅美大熊猫丫丫即将回国
(4)大熊猫的中韩合作研究
(5)大熊猫栖息地的保护
(6)借助人工手段成功繁殖双胞胎大熊猫
(7)野生大熊猫及其保护
(8)卧龙保护区护林员的贡献
(1)
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The giant panda loves bamboo. An adult panda requires 12.5 kilograms of bamboo, 1 it hungrily pulls out with its powerful paw, 2 (satisfy) its daily needs. Wild pandas live only in the high bamboo forests of Central China. These mountain forests are cool and wet --- just as pandas like it. In the summer, they may climb as high as 4,000 meters to help themselves to bamboo growing at higher altitudes. Frequently, pandas 3 (see) eating in a relaxed sitting position, with their back legs 4 (stretch) out before them. 5 they may appear inactive, they are in fact skilled tree-climbers and efficient swimmers.
Giant pandas are unsociable. They have a 6 (high) developed sense of smell that males use to avoid each other and to find females for 7 (mate) in the spring. After a five-month 8 (pregnant), a female gives birth to a cub. The blind baby pandas weigh only 142 grams and cannot crawl until they reach three months of age. They are born white, and develop their much loved coloring later.
There are only about 1,000 giant pandas left in the wild, 9 perhaps another 100 in zoos. Because they are so rare, much of 10 we know about pandas comes from studying these zoo animals.
(2)
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For such a big bear, the giant panda’s favorite food, bamboo, is surprising. It’s a tough, stick-like plant with 1 (relative) few nutrients, so the panda has to eat it all day long just 2 (sustain) itself. That amounts to about 30 pounds a day for a 300-pound panda. How do they do it?
The answer is in their paws. Each one has a 3 (six) finger, which scientists call a “pseudo-thumb”. It is actually an 4 (extend) of the panda’s wrist bone. “It’s not nearly as good a thumb as ours, so they can’t make tools or complex mo