Two Pandabears from China

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The giant panda, or panda is a bear native to central-western and south western China. The giant panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, mainly in Sichuan province.

Pandas prefer cold, damp coniferous forests between 4000 and 11,000 feet high in elevation. They require dense bamboo stands for food and cover. Pandas have a very specific diet consisting almost entirely of leaves, stems, and shoots of various bamboo species.

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The Formosan blue magpie or the “long-tailed mountain lady”.