Clarke

Endangered Species Project There are producers,consumers and decomposers. The Red Panda is a consumer. Order: Carnivora Family: Ailuriade The scientific name of the red panda is Ailurus fulgens. The red panda is endangered because deforestation, killing it for it's fur,the illegal trade of live animals and because of domestic dogs killing them. Red Pandas gestate for 134 days and have litters of 1 to 4. The little ones stsy in the nest for about 90 days and stay with their mom until mating season. They reachadult size in 1 year or 12 months. The Red Panda Network created the "Panchthar-Ilam-Taplejung Red Panda Protected Forest" so that Red Panda's could have a place to live. This area is also very important to the clouded leapord and leapord cat. Red Pandas primarily eat bamboo leaves. They also eat oranges ,liches,bird eggs and plants with small leaves. The ecosystem of the Red Panda is a bamboo forest with lots of bamboo trees. Snow leapords eat them. They also need berries,bird eggs and plants to survive. They live in cool temperatures and the air is very moist. They live at an altitude of 2,00 to 4,800 feet. The average rain fall is 350 cm. The producers in the Red Pandas ecosystem are cyprees, palm, and citrus fruit trees. There are also evergreens,oaks, azalea,chestnuts,alder trees,rhododendron and dawn redwoood. Dawn redwood is a tree that is almost exctinct. The consumers are of course the red panda, the panda, the bear cat, the giant panda, monkeys,bears,elephants,porcupines ,snow leapords, and lingyang(a special species of antelope). Red Pandas are very hard to observe because they are very secretive. There is about one of them prer 3.9km2 in the Singalia National Park. Their population has decraesed 40% over the last 50 years due to habitat loss and poaching. There are only 2,500 adult living pandas. The community of the Red Panda is bamboo forests. They live in Schihuan,Yunnan,Himalayas and Mayanmar. They share their living space with Giant Pandas. There are lots of trees and small leaved plants. __References__ . ||< Ailurus Fulgens." //Red List//. ICUN, n.d. Web. 7 Feb. 2012. . ||< Red Panda Fact Sheet." //Smithsonian National Zoological Park//. Smithsonian, n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2012. . ||  ||   || __Food Web__ __ Red Panda __ If the red Panda was taken out of the food web the snow leopards wouldn’t have anything to eat because snow leopards mainly eat Red Pandas. Foxes would also have a shortage of food. There would be too many liches. The bamboo and oranges would be fine because they have someone else to eat them. There would also be too many birds, but not enough worms because birds eat worms. There would be no one to eat the birds so they would over populate. Also, without worms there would be dead bodies lying everywhere because there would be no one to decompose them. There would be bacteria, but worms are a very big part of the decomposers in my animals’ ecosystem. That is what would happe
 * < Ailurus fulgens." //Animal Diversity//. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Feb. 2012.

__ Adaptations __

Adaptations are things that animals develop to help them survive in the wild. They need these changes or they would probably die very quickly. The Red Panda has very thick fur to stay warm because it can get very cold up in the mountains where it lives. It also has sharp claws, so that it can climb up trees and rip up bamboo. They have very strong teeth so that they can eat the bamboo. Their feet have grips on them so they can also climb up trees easily. They also have long nails to grip into the trees like their feet grips. This is very helpful because they live mostly in trees

. || __ How do you measure their population? __  Scientist usually measure their population by finding the females burrows which is about 1 square mile. There are also a lot of zoos which is also another way, but their exact population is not known since so many of them die. Red Pandas are very important in Asia because they really help with the environment, so we cannot let them die out. Scientists use inderect observation to measure their population because what we know now is an estimate. Since the female red pandas aren't in the burrows anymore they can just try to count how many they were in there and then see how many burrows there are in total
 * < Red Pandas Adaptations." //Adaptations//. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Mar. 2012.


 * < About the Red Panda." //Red Panda Network//. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Mar. 2012. ||