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Giant Panda In The Wild By Robert Bateman

By Robert Bateman

Giant Panda in the Wild by Robert Bateman

"The panda’s habitat, however, made me feel right at home. As we climbed the narrow switchback trail that had begun in neatly terraced fields, we entered a region of huge old-growth trees covered with snow that had fallen the previous night. (The panda’s depend on these old trees for dens.) Many of the tree species - pine, fir, hemlock, larch and birch - were familiar, as was the cool misty weather. Except for the dense bamboo thickets, I could almost have been walking in an old-growth forest of the Pacific Northwest. But above all, it is the bamboo under-story that makes these mountain habitats the place for pandas."

"They feed almost exclusively on this difficult-to-digest and nutrient-poor plant. As descendants of the ancient carnivore ancestor of modern bears, pandas lack the digestive adaptations that might allow them to use their plant food to the maximum, and so they compensate by eating constantly and digesting quickly, on average eighteen pounds a day. To conserve energy, they generally sleep whenever they’re not eating, but this still leaves them close to the edge of malnutrition. When a species of bamboo suddenly flowers and dies off - as it may do once in many years - the panda population can drop catastrophically. This is a particular problem now that logging has cleared the lower slopes, where different bamboo species provided an alternate food source." ~ Robert Bateman

Giant Panda in the Wild by Robert Bateman is available for sale as a signed and numbered limited edition print. They have a 15-7/8 x 11-7/8 vertical image size priced at $435 unframed. LAST ONE!

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Types	Dimensions	Edition Size	Price	Cart
Signed And Numbered Limited Edition Print	15-7/8 x 11-7/8 Image Size	950	$435.00

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