Where can you see pandas. Giant panda. Appearance and morphology

13.10.2019

If someone asks me: “What is the cutest animal you have ever seen?”, then I will answer without any pause: “Pandas!” And try to disagree with me))) Yes, I won’t argue that there are many unusual and funny animals in the world, for example Proboscis monkeys, which I visited in reserve Bako on the island of Borneo. But you must admit, basically everyone is touched by the cubs of animals, and when the animal grows up, it becomes not so funny anymore. This is not the case with pandas. This black and white bear attracts attention until old age and makes you cross the seas and oceans in the hope of seeing him. On my big Asian trip, I went to the north of Thailand - to Chiang Mai. To see a panda. And there were three of them!

Meet the boy Chuang-Chuang, the girl Lin Hui and their cub Lin Ping, who was born in the Chiang Mai Zoo.

Info-tablet at the cage with a panda boy.

Information board at the cage with a panda girl.

Here is such a mimic was born in a zoo in Chiang Mai.

AT natural environment pandas live only in China and the main habitat is the province of Sechuan. Pandas are vegetarians and eat bamboo. During the expansion of agricultural land, the Chinese cut down bamboo thickets, thereby reducing the diet of these bears. When they realized it, it was already too late, the population was seriously reduced and now there are about one and a half thousand individuals all over the world.

Baby panda has already grown into a big bear.

Where can you see a panda?

All pandas belong to China, and if you see a panda in a zoo, you know that they live there under a lease agreement and when they have offspring, then it automatically also belongs to China. But in order to see pandas, it is not necessary to fly to China.

There are a couple dozen zoos and natural national parks in the world where pandas live. Unfortunately, China, as a monopolist, exposes a considerable amount of rent and not all zoos can afford to rent and maintain them. But still, 35 individuals live in different corners planets and you can see them if you want.

Where can you see a panda.

Of the places closest to Russia where you can see a panda - a zoo which is located in one of the parks of Vienna - Schönnbrun, in Austria. Nearby is the Berlin Zoo, and a little further, where you can also get with only a Schengen visa, the Madrid Zoo. But if you are in Thailand, then it is most convenient for you to take the next train to Chiang Mai. See a panda and visit tiger kingdom .

Panda at the zoo.

Baby Ling Ping lives separately from her parents in a large spacious aviary. She has a lot of toys, but I found her very lonely. She wandered around the cage back and forth at times pounding her paws on the floor and was clearly overexcited. Evening was coming, I arrived at the Chiang Mai Zoo almost before closing. And pandas, as you know, are nocturnal animals, so it is quite possible that she just woke up and did exercises 🙂

Baby panda cage at the Chiang Mai Zoo.

Visitors can stand and watch the panda from above through the glass.

A cozy spacious aviary still cannot be compared with bamboo thickets in nature. But the baby will never know about them.

The baby's parents live in other enclosures and are separated from visitors not by thick glass stained with children's hands, but by a moat.

The panda is one of the most unusual animals in the world.

You can see the panda at the zoo in Chiang Mai.

There is a lot of space, but of course not enough, and walking along it is the same as running along a bike path - the same landscape outside the window.

And this is mom panda, funny mimic Ling Hui. She builds muzzles for visitors and is a little calmer than her lover.

Giant pandas at the Chiang Mai Zoo.

Panda crawls through the branches of trees, chews bamboo while sitting in an armchair, plays ball and sighs languidly in front of the fence, behind which her lover is sitting.

Loving panda.

Love knows no boundaries, but can be separated by a simple fence.

There are many other interesting animals in the Chiang Mai Zoo, but I will talk about this separately.

The Moscow Zoo is waiting for a pair of giant pandas from China's Chengdu Zoo. According to the press service of the Moscow Zoo, the animals will be housed in the China pavilion, the construction of which will begin in 2017.

“The exact start date for the construction of the pavilion will be determined after negotiations between the General Director of the Moscow Zoo and the Chengdu Panda Park, they will take place in April. We would like to get a couple of pandas, but it is not yet known whether they will be given to us on a paid or free basis, ”the press service explained.

The China pavilion will appear next to the greenhouse at the Moscow Zoo. It is expected that it will consist of three bulk levels. On the first level there will be a bird park where you can see the blue magpie, white-eared pheasant and other birds.

On the second level there will be an aviary for giant salamander, there is a similar one in the Prague Zoo.

The third level of the pavilion will be inhabited by two species of pandas: red pandas, already living in the Moscow Zoo, and large black-and-white pandas, which should be brought from Chengdu.

Negotiations are also underway with the Prague Zoo on the transfer of golden monkeys for the pavilion. Since golden monkeys are part of the conservation program of the European Association of Zoos, they can be given away only when it is clear in what conditions they are going to be settled, the press service of the Moscow Zoo specified.

The zoo noted that depending on the basis on which the animals are obtained, and also taking into account the amount of funding for the project by sponsors, admission to the pavilion may be free or carried out for a small additional fee.

For the first time, a giant panda appeared on the territory of Russia already in 1957. Then a panda named Ping-ping was settled in a separate luxury apartment in the Moscow Zoo. Panda came to stay in Moscow. Then we managed to acquire another An-An panda, which, as it was supposed, was paired with the male Ping-Ping. However, later it turned out that An-An is also a male and it was not possible to cross the pandas.

Four years later, zoo officials decided to try again. In 1961, the London Zoo offered to reunite one bean with their female, and the Moscow Zoo officials happily agreed. Groom An-An and bride Chi-Chi were placed in a separate highly comfortable enclosure. But the animals did not make friends and it was not possible to get offspring.

Last on this moment Giant pandas visited the Moscow Zoo in 2001. For just a few weeks, two giant pandas, a male and a female (Ven-Ven and Ben-Ben), were brought to the Moscow Zoo as part of the Beijing Days in Moscow.

To the question In what cities of Russia there are pandas (zoos, circus or something similar ...) ??? given by the author Dmitry Kibisov the best answer is There are none! Sometimes they were brought to Moscow, but only on trips.
Because China forbids exporting them forever, there is only the possibility of literally "renting" them - for solid money, of course - a million dollars! + subject to adequate content and for a strictly specified period of time (exactly 1 year).
Here, read about pandas when they were in Moscow:
The twentieth century
In 1957, the giant panda first settled in Russia, in a special house on the territory of the Moscow Zoo. It was a large male named Ping-Ping. And in the summer of 1959, they managed to acquire a second copy, according to the plan, in pair with Ping-Ping. His name was An-An, but, unfortunately, he was also a male. So two handsome beans lived in Moscow. In 1961, an Austrian merchant brought a large group of African animals to China and exchanged them for a young female giant panda named Chi-Chi. With this "zoological star", as one of the prominent English zoologists called it, the owner of Chi-Chi arrived in England, where he sold it to the London Zoological Society for huge money. In 1966, the British proposed to the Moscow Zoo to connect the Moscow cavalier An-An with Chi-Chi. They agreed, and the overseas bride arrived from London to Moscow by special plane. She was placed in a transport "carriage" made of plexiglass, non-ferrous metals and plastic. This extraordinary guest was met by zoologists, employees of the Moscow Zoo, employees of the British Embassy and a great many correspondents. One of them said jokingly: "I often go to the international airport of the capital due to the nature of my work, but I have not yet met a single prime minister." Indeed, there was a lot of noise.
Chi-Chi lived at the Moscow Zoo for six months, but did not befriend An-An and was sent back. In 1968, the experiment was repeated. This time, An-An flew to visit Chi-Chi. In London, he lived for six months and also to no avail. But, as you know, there is a blessing in disguise: both meetings, although they did not give the desired result, helped us to better understand the features of the biology of giant pandas. For example, no one suspected that animals that are good-natured in appearance and completely gentle in character can be very aggressive under certain circumstances. Sometimes between our heroes there were even violent fights. I had to separate them with the help of hoses, blank shots from hunting rifles, and also use special peaks and shields made of thick plywood. When attacking and defending, the animals showed great dexterity and techniques typical of predators: grabbing the enemy with their front paws, powerful blows with their paws on the head of the enemy, swift ramming with their entire body weight, grasping with their teeth, and so on.
Twenty first century
The visit of bamboo bears to Russia took place as part of the Days of Beijing in Moscow in the summer of 2001. Ben-Ben is a male, he celebrated his fourth birthday in Moscow on July 24, Wen-Ven is a female, she is nine years old.
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And here are the links - where there are pandas in the world's zoos - see. on - in Berlin and Vienna, for example - this is one of those places that are closer. and here is the list:
1. Schönbrunn Zoo (German: Tiergarten Schönbrunn), Austria;
2. The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding (hereafter Chengdu Panda Base), China;
3. Atlanta Zoo (USA);
4. Panda Breeding Center in Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province, China (Wolong National Nature Reserve) - temporarily closed;
5. Adelaide Zoo, Australia (Adelaide Zoo);
6. Kobe Oji Zoo, China;
7. Madrid Zoo, Spain;
8. Edinburgh Zoo, UK (Scotland);
9. Chiang Mai Zoo, Thailand;
10. Bei Jing Zoo, China;
11. Memphis Zoo, USA;
12. Ocean Park, Hong Kong;
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In China itself, of course, there are more opportunities to see them)

Where do pandas live? Surely many will answer: of course, in China. But China is a huge country, and seeing a panda there is far from easy.

The places where pandas live are primarily due to the fact that pandas, although they are predators, are actually herbivores. In addition, they do not eat any plant food, but only one plant - bamboo.

Of the several hundred types of bamboo, the panda consumes only a few, which grow just where the pandas live.

A very rare animal that many people have never seen with their own eyes, except perhaps only on the TV screen or on the Internet. And this is not surprising, because there are now a little more than one and a half thousand pandas left on earth, and it is simply impossible for the majority to get to those places where pandas live in natural conditions. If other rare animals can be seen in zoos, then you can see the panda only in the single largest zoos in the world. And all this is due to the fact that the panda is not an ordinary animal, it is a predator that eats bamboo and does not recognize other food. For unknown reasons, many centuries ago, pandas switched to plant foods. Why exactly bamboo is difficult to answer, but most likely it was bamboo that was more accessible to pandas in their places of residence. And although bamboo is a subtropical plant found on many continents, it is in southeast Asia that it is most widespread and these are exactly the places where pandas live.

What continent does the panda live on?

The giant panda is a rather large animal, growing up to 150 kg. Although in appearance it looks like a real bear, but being a herbivore, in general, it is a rather peaceful animal. For this reason, the panda is very cautious and chooses to live in hard-to-reach places. But the panda constantly needs a lot of food, and since the main food for it is bamboo, the permanent habitat of the big panda is bamboo forests on the mountain slopes.

Currently, the panda lives only on the mainland. Eurasia.

One of the most extensive bamboo growing areas is the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau in southwestern China. These are the provinces of China: Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Chongqing, Guizhou and part of the Tibet Autonomous Region. These places were chosen by these bamboo bears and have been living here for hundreds and thousands of years. This region of central China with large areas bamboo forests - the world's only habitat for the giant panda.

The population of China is constantly growing, and at such a pace that the Chinese need new territories. Over the past half century, the population has increased so much that these hard-to-reach regions where pandas live have begun to develop. More or less flat places in these provinces began to be cleared, bamboo forests were cut down, and the vacated land was turned into fields, towns and cities, forests in mountainous areas were cut down.

In China, bamboo has long been used as a material for construction, furniture and household utensils, which were used mainly by the locals. In places where bamboo grows, work was constantly carried out to harvest bamboo, and despite the fact that bamboo grows very quickly, bamboo forests did not have time to recover and their areas were catastrophically reduced. And for a normal existence, only one pair of pandas needs an area of \u200b\u200babout three thousand hectares of bamboo forest.

With the advent of nano-technologies, new materials began to be obtained from bamboo: bamboo laminate, Decoration Materials, filler, textiles, which have gained worldwide recognition as natural and non-allergenic substitutes for the once popular synthetic ones. This increased the demand for bamboo, and a boom in bamboo harvesting began in China. Bamboo thickets began to disappear before our eyes and the living space of the panda began to decrease catastrophically. Pandas living in the natural environment began to move higher into the mountains and further from people, their population began to decrease rapidly.

In order to preserve the population of this rare animal, the Chinese government began to take effective measures. In 1998, a law was passed to stop deforestation and create nature reserves and national parks. True, this is not a single area, but consisting of separate enclaves, and sometimes there are problems due to the fact that in some reserves there is a decrease in the growth of bamboo, and the pandas living there lack food, but nevertheless it gave results. The number of pandas began to increase, albeit little by little. In addition, the protection of forests saves China's ecosystem from destruction. Thus, at the source of the Yangtze River, one of the most important Chinese water arteries, the quality of water has significantly increased, and the creation of ecological tourism has become a good source of income for the population living in the mountains, who previously earned money by harvesting bamboo.

Where else does the panda live?

China is the only country in the world where the panda lives, its peculiar national symbol, along with the Great Wall of China. In no other country does the black-and-white panda live in natural conditions anymore. And in China, you can see a bamboo bear in almost only one place. After the earthquake in 2008 severely damaged the most big nature reserve pandas in Wolong, in Sichuan province, the bulk of the pandas were transported to a panda breeding research center near Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan. Over time, this center in the Bifengxia district of Ya'an town has become the world's largest panda zoo.

This center has all the conditions for living and breeding of these animals. Pandas are not kept in enclosures, as is usually the case in zoos, but almost in natural conditions in large areas on which special log structures are built, on which pandas can have fun. The center has special services: a kind of " Kindergarten» for kids, hospital, laboratory, science center and museum. Pandas are fed with chopped bamboo harvested in the mountains and various food additives. Today, this center is home to the largest population of pandas in the world.

Of course, you can see a panda live without a trip to China. Since the panda is a very interesting animal, people have long tried to capture them and keep them in zoos, although this was quite a difficult task. In 1959, there were only 7 pandas in the zoos of the world, 5 of which were in the Beijing Zoo and one each in the Moscow Zoo and the London Zoological Society Zoo. Now they are in many zoos around the world.

pandas in zoos

For a very large fee, the Chinese rent pandas to famous zoos.

Schönbrunn Zoo in Austria

Atlanta Zoo in USA

zoo in adelaide australia

zoo madrid in spain

Edinburgh Zoo in UK; River Safari in Singapore

the Memphis Zoo in the USA; Ocean Park in Hong Kong

the San Diego Zoo in the US; Smithsonian National Zoo in the United States

zoo in berlin germany

Zoo in Chiang Mai, Thailand

taipei zoo in taiwan

ueno zoo in japan

Toronto Zoo, Canada

zoo Beauval in France; zoo in mexico city mexico

Shirahama Amusement Park in Japan

There are no pandas in Russian zoos now, but in the fifties of the last century there were pandas in the Moscow Zoo. The first panda came to Russia in 1955. According to more reliable sources, it was a rather young individual, a male, and then he weighed only 20 kg, that is, he was very young. According to the rules adopted in China, each panda has a name, ours was called Ping Ping. They created quite decent conditions for him, but there were problems with food. Bamboo does not grow in the Moscow region, it had to be delivered by plane from Abkhazia, so in addition to bamboo, it was taught to eat local food. Ping-Ping received per day: 500 bamboo sprouts with leaves, 2 kg of oatmeal or rice porridge with milk, 2 eggs, 400 grams of fruit juice, 3-4 carrots, tea with sugar and birch or willow branches. Ping Ping lived until 1961 and died at the age of 6. Probably the cause of early death was improper conditions of detention and feeding, he ate a lot and moved little, in the spring of 1960 his weight reached 185 kilograms.

In 1959, they bought another An-An panda, they wanted to create a pair, but it turned out to be also a male. An An was also fed a little with bamboo, but mainly his food was: cereals, fruits, vegetables, sweet tea, and instead of bamboo, birch, willow and linden brooms. Oddly enough, he got used to this food and grew up quite normally. Its weight reached more than 150 kg, and it was about 1.5 meters long. He lived until 1972. He died at the age of 15.

Zoologists have repeatedly tried to get offspring in captivity. And Chinese specialists have begun to succeed. This was also decided to be done in Europe. In the zoo of the Zoological Society of London there was a panda - a female named Chi-Chi. In 1966, the leadership of the London Zoological Society suggested that the Moscow Zoo try to pair the female Chi-Chi with the male An-An. The English panda was brought to Moscow by plane and tried to bring it to An-An. But the friendship didn't work out. Moreover, both pandas showed great aggression towards each other, arranged real fights between themselves, and they had to be separated, sometimes even with the help of hoses and shots from guns. Six months were unsuccessful and Chi-Chi was taken back to London. In 1968, they tried to repeat the experiment, this time An-An was taken to London, where he spent six months, but also to no avail, the pandas could not find a common language.

After that, the Russians were able to see live pandas only in 2001, when, during the Days of Beijing Culture in Moscow, two pandas were brought to the Moscow Zoo. For this, a special agreement was concluded between the parties, in which all parties to the delivery and maintenance of pandas were stipulated. They were accompanied by Chinese specialists, and just in case, insurance was concluded for a huge amount. Pandas, a four-year-old male Ben-Ben and a nine-year-old female Ven-Ven stayed at the Moscow Zoo for only two months. Visitors to the Moscow Zoo these days were twice as many as usual, and on Sunday it was almost impossible to get there at all. By the way, both pandas who visited Russia were born in the Beijing Zoo. Their names are also not arbitrary: so the 9-year-old female panda Wen-Wen got her name in honor of the director of the zoo Comrade Wen, and the male Ben-Ben, which means Goby in Chinese, is named so because he was born in the year of the Ox. They were kept in different cages.

A special pavilion "China" is currently being built at the Moscow Zoo, in which, as promised in the press, black-and-white and red pandas from Chengdu will live. Under what conditions the pandas will be handed over has not yet been reported, but in any case, Muscovites and guests of the capital will soon be able to see these amazing animals with their own eyes.

Last year I already wrote about zoos in the Netherlands (). But more recently, there was a reason to write again on this topic. Many probably know that pandas Xing Ya and Wu Wen from China arrived in the Netherlands on April 12, they will live in the small zoo Ouwehands Dierenpark in the city of Rhenen.

As a huge panda fan I couldn't pass up and went to Ouwehands Dierenpark last week. And looking ahead, I’ll say: I really liked this park. Great place to have a good day, especially if you have kids. Playgrounds, in my opinion, are super cool and varied, I could hardly restrain myself from climbing into one.

In general, let's get down to the pictures:

For big and lazy bears, the zoo designed a huge pavilion, which is part of the Asiatic building. The entire area covers about 9,000 m², of which 3,400 m² is dedicated to giant pandas.

Currently, China is seriously thinking about the problem of the extinction of Giant pandas. In China, the death penalty has been introduced for harming Giant pandas and for exterminating these animals. All pandas, as well as their offspring, which they will give in the future, belong only to China.

In order to develop programs for the conservation of this rare species animals, China leases giant pandas to zoos in other countries. The average cost of rent for a year is 1 million US dollars.

In addition to the giant pandas' stay at Rhenen, Ouwehands Zoo will make a significant annual financial contribution to support conservation efforts in China.

In addition to the giant pandas in the Asian part, there are enclosures with my favorites - red or small pandas. I can stare at these mils for hours.

Also in Pandasia, of course, an Asian restaurant

In my opinion, everything is very authentic and very tasty. There is even Chinese beer!

And where without a gift shop dedicated to pandas.

In addition to visiting all kinds of pandas, there are a million more in the park. different ways entertain both yourself and the children, if any.

On such a “road” you can move over the habitat of the bears.

Many animals are very close to zoo visitors.

Like most Dutch zoos, this park has a farmyard with the usual ducks, rabbits and sheep.

Without a cat, the farm is not the same!

There are also not very many species of animals, but all of them can be well considered. And most importantly, these are large enough enclosures for animals. Some are very close to natural conditions, one enclosure with brown bears and wolves is worth something!