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WHAT WE CAN DO TO PROTECT YOU:
 * Animal || Red panda ||
 * Country || southwestern China ||
 * Habitat || Mountain forest ||
 * Food || Primarily bamboo shoots and leaves,some roots, fruit, grasses, acorns, lichens, insects and sometimes eggsberries, mushrooms, also eat small mammals and rodents, but they are mainly vegetarians. ||
 * Dangers || snow leopards, martens (weasels), red foxes, dholes, wild dogs, giant panda and humans, ||
 * Any special characteristics || soft dense, red and-white marking, bushy tail, a small, thumb-like bone that sticks out from the wrist that helps them grasp bamboo shoots. ||
 * Other || Red pandas are able to reproduce at around 18 months of age, and are fully mature at two to three year ||

Well red pandas are there food, bamboo from the cutting down bamboo trees. I think we should find them and take them to the zoo to get protected to have food and water and a really good place to live, so they can be with there family and friends and can have there babies and have people to help them if they are sick or ill. Since red Panda's are endanered then you mit want to know how many are left? Well, tere are ONLY 2,000 left! In southwest China, red pandas are for their fur, especially for the highly valued bushy tails from which produced.

ABOUT ME:

*Length: 1.5 to 2 ft

*Weight: 6.5 to 14 lbs

*Lifespan: Up to 14 yrs

*Height: 20 to 24 inches tall

After gestation of about134 days, litters of one to four young.The young stay in the nest for about 90 days and stay close to their mother until the next mating season in about 12 months.

The head and body length of red pandas averages 56 to 63 cm (22 to 25 in), and their tails about 37 to 47 cm (15 to 19 in). Behavior

Red pandas are generally solitary, but there are a couple of exceptions to the rule. First, young red pandas grow relatively slowly, so they develop extended associations with their mothers that last for over a year. Second, red pandas have short relationships duringthe annual breeding season.

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KOALA Type:Mammal! Diet:Herbivore! Average life span in the wild:20 years! Weight:20 lbs (9 kg)
 * < Animal ||< Koala ||
 * Country || Australia ||
 * Habitat ||< They live in eucalypt forests or woodland inlands along the Eastern and South-Eastern coastline. Koalas need large area to live, move about .They depend on other koalas to survive. ||
 * < Food || Eucalyptus leaves ||
 * Dangers ||< The tree cutting and habitat destruction is the main cause for this increasing reduction of koala number. ||
 * < Any special characteristics ||< koala hat thick coat,large ears,and long limbs.Their fur is woolly ||
 * Other ||< Koalas don't live in families, but are solitary animals. ||

- Did you know that koalas are the only other animal besides primates (monkeys and gorillas) that has fingerprints? -OO,YES!

Save me

There isn't much Koalas left in Australia so they now are Endangered Spieces (or however you spell it) so we should act fast to save them by not chopping down trees or killing them

HABITAT:

 Koalas live in the bushes around Australia, they breed, sleep and live there.

 Sometimes they move away to a safer location away from the predators.

What is the Koala?

The Koala is a small tree-dwelling marsupial which weighs about 9 kg. It's fur is thick and ash grey with a bit of brown in some places.. The fur

Koalas have woolly thick fur for high and low temperatures, and which also acts as a raincoat to repel water when it rains. The fur colour can be from light grey to brown. Koalas in the south usually tend to have darker, thicker fur and sometimes browner, than the koalas in the north.They have bits of white fur inside their ears, on their chin, chest and neck, inside the front limbs and sometimes on the back hind limbs and usually patches on their rump.

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The Paws The koalas paws are specially adapted for gripping and climbing. Rough pads and soles on the koalas paws help it to grip tree trunks and branches, and the front and hind paws have long sharp claws. Each paw has five digits. On the front paws, two digits are on the other side to the other three, like a human's thumb, so they are both able to be moved in opposition to the other three.media type="youtube" key="c8qPfQYE6t4" width="560" height="315" How we can protect them : Koalas live in societies, just like humans, so they need to be able to come into contact with other koalas. It is because of this they need to have areas of suitable eucalypt forest which are large enough to support a healthy koala population and to allow for expansion by maturing young koalas.

Koalas do not have very good eyesight but they have a great sense of hearing and an excellent sense of smell.

<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #0000ff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Though not classified as endangered, Australia’s iconic marsupials were placed on the IUCN's Climate Change Hit List following the Copenhagen summit in 2009. Since the European settlement of Australia, koalas have fared badly. In the past two centuries, vast numbers were killed for their fur, but today, it is habitat loss and the impact of urbanisation that are the leading threats. But more than anything, it's their fussiness over food that led the IUCN to nominate them for the climate change hit list. Rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere saps the nutrients and causes toxicity levels to rise in the koala's preferred diet of eucalyptus leaves. If eucalyptus becomes unpalatable to koalas, malnutrition and potential starvation will follow. <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ceb2e8; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 160%;"> Deamon of Tasmania

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 * Animal || TASMANIAN DEVIL ||
 * Country || Australia,Tasmania ||
 * Habitat || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Devils are found in all habitats on the island of Tasmania, including the outskirts of urban areas, and are distributed throughout the Tasmanian mainland and on [|Robbins Island] (which is connected to mainland Tasmania at low tide. The north-western population is located west of the [|Forth River] and as far south as [|Macquarie Heads]. ||
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 * Other || == TASMANIAN DEVIL ==

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<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #f40a2b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is a carnivorous marsupial

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #f40a2b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">It is characterised by its stocky and muscular build, black fur, pungent odour, extremely loud and disturbing screech, keen sense of smell, and ferocity when feeding. The Tasmanian devil's large head and neck allow it to generate amongst the strongest bite per unit body mass of any extant mammal land predator and it hunts prey and scavenges carrion as well as eating household products if humans are living nearby. Although it usually is solitary, it sometimes eats with other devils and defecates in a communal location. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #f01717; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Devils are not monogamous, and their reproductive process is very robust and competitive. Males fight one another for the females, and then guard their partners to prevent female infidelity. Females can ovulate three times in as many weeks during the mating season, and 80% of two-year-old females are seen to be pregnant during the annual mating season. Females average four breeding seasons in their life and give birth to 20–30 live young after three weeks' gestation. The newborn are pink, lack fur, have indistinct facial features. <span style="background-color: #e61616; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The devil is an iconic symbol of Tasmania and many organisations, groups and products associated with the state use the animal in their logos. It is seen as an important attractor of tourists to Tasmania and has come to worldwide attention through the Looney Tunes (Taz) character of the same name. Due to export restrictions and the failure of overseas devils to breed, there are almost no devils outside Australia except for any that have been illegally smuggled. media type="youtube" key="eCwWaoIrxNg" height="315" width="560"