Notable invasive species

Examples of introduced animals that have become invasive include the gypsy moth in eastern North America, the zebra mussel and alewife in the Great Lakes, the Canada goose and gray squirrel in Europe, the beaver in Tierra del Fuego, the muskrat in Europe and Asia, the cane toad and red fox in Australia, nutria in North …

Let’s take a look at our top 15 species new to science in 2020:

• A new mouse lemur emerges from the tiniest group of primates in the world.
• An expedition into the Bolivian cloud forest reveals a new frog, among the smallest in the world.
• A beautiful and endangered langur species found in Myanmar.

A team of scientists led by Museum researchers have identified and named a new species of viper, Bitis harenna, that lives in Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains National Park.

Panda mothers can accidentally crush their babies. In 2006, a giant panda in China accidentally killed her newborn as it nursed. Considering the size difference, “it’s surprising they’re not crushed more often,” says Brody.

Since 99 percent of a giant panda’s diet is bamboo—with the occasional addition of a rodent, bird, or fish that popped out of a stream—it’s very unlikely that its flesh tastes anything like that of other bears.

One the main reasons that panda populations have declined is habitat destruction. As the human population in China continues to grow, pandas’ habitat gets taken over by development, pushing them into smaller and less livable areas. Habitat destruction also leads to food shortages.

Genetic tests are the only way to discern the sex of a panda cub in the earliest weeks of its life. Not only are mothers incredibly protective of the cubs at this age, but pandas are also born without genitalia. That’s not all they’re missing at birth.

20 Food-related Cute Names for a Panda

1. Mr. Bamboo.
2. Cheeseburger.
3. Meatball.
4. Noodles.
5. Nacho.
6. Coco.
7. Bailey.
8. Apple Panda.

Newborn giant pandas are almost completely unrecognizable. Rather than sporting their iconic black-and-white markings, pandas emerge from their mothers as pink, wrinkly, blind, squealing creatures roughly the size of a stick of butter.

The giant panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, mainly in Sichuan, but also in neighbouring Shaanxi and Gansu. As a result of farming, deforestation, and other development, the giant panda has been driven out of the lowland areas where it once lived, and it is a conservation-reliant vulnerable species.

Wild pandas live only in remote, mountainous regions in central China. These high bamboo forests are cool and wet—just as pandas like it.

Yes, China pretty much owns every single existing giant panda out there and they are China’s legal property loaned out to various countries.

Pandas can grow up to 1.5m long and weigh as much as 150kg. And while their large molar teeth and strong jaw muscles are designed for crushing bamboo, they can deliver a very nasty bite. Pandas mainly use their strong jaws and teeth for eating bamboo, but they will bite if confronted.

Giant panda attacks on human are rare. There, we present three cases of giant panda attacks on humans at the Panda House at Beijing Zoo from September 2006 to June 2009 to warn people of the giant panda’s potentially dangerous behavior.

20 yearsIn the wild

Reality: They are cute, for sure. But don’t go in for a cuddle; pandas can deliver one heck of a bite. Eating bamboo is a blinding evolutionary strategy. They have an intense and productive sex drive.

Coons thinks that humans find pandas so cute because of the “hedonic mechanisms” their features set off in us. It’s all to do with our brain making us feel a certain love towards pandas. “According to Hamann, increased activity in the middle orbital cortex is usually associated with pleasure and positive emotion.