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Because of that habitat loss, wild populations of red pandas are increasingly fragmented. One fragment that hosts a population of around forty red pandas is Nepal's Langtang National Park, in the Himalayas. Even within the national park, those forty pandas are fragmented into four groups.
In Langtang, the red pandas have another problem, and it's cheese. You see, the park is also home to two cheese factories that produce a combined 14, kilograms of cheese each year to be sold in nearby Kathmandu. To amass the , liters of milk necessary to make the cheese, farmers keep large herds of chauri, a yak-cow hybrid, and those herds are permitted to graze within the park. The competition over food sources with the chauri combined with other threats to their lives from the herders and from their dogs has led to the death of many, many red pandas.
Red pandas tweet. They don't tweet in characters like you or I do, but they tweet nonetheless. Actually, to be accurate, the sound they make is known as "twittering. According to researchers at the National Zoo, twittering seems to mainly used to signal reproductive intent.
Which, now that I think about it, is not all that different from some twitterers of our own species either. Red pandas have different names depending on where you are.
In Nepal, they're called bhalu biralo. Sherpas call the critter ye niglva ponva or wah donka. But the Western world did not always call it a red panda.
That is typically regarded as the moment the red panda became known in Western science. It is also called Chitwa. Naming rights, therefore, went to Cuvier. Flynn J. Whence the red panda? Pradhan S. DOI: Roberts M. Ailurus fulgens, Mammalian Species, 1. And not only that, laws are guiding other wildlife and plants in the country. In , the Chinese government included the Forest law in their constitution.
Four years later, in , they passed the Law on the protection of Wildlife. The Environmental Protection Law was passed in It was stated in the law that anyone who smuggles these animals will be sentenced to at least 10 years in prison. Understandably, these laws were passed to prevent humans from causing harm to giant pandas and other endangered animals. Guess what? It worked. There has been a remarkable decrease in the number of people who cause harm to the giant pandas since then.
If these laws have not been put in the Chinese government constitution, what would have been the fate of these innocent-looking, adorable pandas? Your guess is as good as mine. Yes, the famous Chinese actor Jackie Chan owns two pandas. Sounds interesting? On the 89th Academy Awards red carpet in , Jackie Chan walked on the red carpet carrying two adorable pandas on both hands. As you would expect, all eyes were on him.
Who would not be, right? Due to his contributions toward protecting pandas, Chan was appointed the panda ambassador at that time.
His giant panda pets have become an important part of his life as he takes them wherever he goes. Also, one major reason Chan carries the panda everywhere is to encourage people to prevent the animals from going into extinction. Amazing, right? The very reason why he was an exception to the rule is because of his heroic deeds.
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