How much do you know about pandas? Take our quiz and find out!
1) In Chinese, pandas are known as Daxiongmao, which means “large bear cat.”
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2) Pandas can eat up to 40 pounds of bamboo a day.
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3) Pandas are not really bears; they are in the raccoon family.
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4) There are only about 1,000 pandas living in the wild today.
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5) In the cold, wet Chinese winters, pandas hibernate.
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6) Mother pandas and their babies go separate ways when the baby gets to be about 3 years old.
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7) Pandas rely heavily on their sense of smell to communicate, using scent glands to leave marks in their territory.
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8) China no longer gives pandas to other nations; rather, they loan the animals for a certain number of years.
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9) Pandas often give birth to twins, and can successfully raise both.
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10) To identify individual wild pandas, all researchers need is DNA extracted from a few strands of fur snagged on a wire.
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