Giant Panda
A March Poem for In Like A Lion, Out Like a Lamb - A Mikeydred March Dollar Prompt For All Vocal Creators
March 16 is National Panda Day, so I thought I would write about them.
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eating most of the day, using your pseudo-thumbs, your sole diet of bamboo fills you up, as you deliberately munch most hours of the day
you climb high in the trees, and when it's muggy and too hot, head to the high elevations and cooler alpine slopes
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similar to cats, the pupils in your eyes are vertical slits, and your eyesight works well at night and low light, but unlike cats, you love to swim and splash in water, and can use it to evade predators. like cats, you eat and sleep for many hours.
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you don't hibernate and may be seen playing in the snow, but when temperatures drop, so do you, heading to shelter in lower elevations
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with your thick fur and round belly, you look cuddly, but you're big and strong, and your Chinese name means giant cat bear. Pandas are important symbols, and in Chinese culture they are looked upon as peaceful and gentle
as you wander through the bamboo forest, it is replenished. your thick fur rubs against foliage, so nuts and seeds stuck to your body drop, which reseeds and enhances the habitat. as you lumber along, you also fertilize with your one hundred daily poops.
Pandas are a keystone species
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Dictionary.com defines a keystone species as: A keystone species is a species of plant or animal that most or all of the other species in an ecosystem are directly or indirectly dependent on. If a keystone species were removed from its ecosystem, that ecosystem would change dramatically. Elephants and wolves are keystone species.
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Comments (21)
Love this! Thank you for writing it!😊💕💗
My son loved Panda Bears, and I love them too. Beautiful article. Nicely Done!!!
What a fun way to learn something new about Pandas. Wonderful poem. Congrats on Top Story!
Congrats on Top Story! 🎉 Well deserved. Keep up the good work!
I love learning and you always teach magnificently on nature! Loved this whole concept, the picture, and the fun and simple way of making us learn. Your passion shows.
Pandas...so incredible.
Nice. I have written about panda before as well. Interestingly it was written in my favorite of all modern writing forms, the listicle. (In case it wasn't obvious, which as I look back at it now, it clearly was not at all obvious, I was being sarcastic.) https://shopping-feedback.today/journal/the-five-rules-for-going-pandal-online%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
I behave like a panda but am not as adored..I need to do more research, lol love the fun facts
Congrats on the Top Story! I learned a surprising amount!
Back to say congratulations on your Top Story! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Very good work, congrats 👏
Wonderful, wonderful account, Andi! Pandas are a lot to love!
Oh I love pandas. This was fab.
THis is brilliant and great to take one of the more unusual March days
That was fascinating. I love pandas.
Lovely, Pandas are such fascinating animals. <3 love your poem
Fun facts! I didn’t know all that about pandas.
A beautiful poem dedicated to the beautiful creatures! I may have to start calling them giant cat bears from now on.
So soothing story about panda! Well done, Andrea~
I have no idea why but I just love pandas sooo much! They seem so cuddly hehehehe. Loved your poem!
This is beautiful, Andi! I’ve been long fascinated by pandas and their conservation program at the Atlanta Zoo (the only one in the world that managed to breed two sets of panda twins). If it were not for artificial insemination and human interference, they’d have been long extinct.