A giant panda is a kind of bear. It has a white face _____black patches around its eyes.

It also has black ears, shoulders and legs. The rest of its body is white.

Pandas live high up in the mountains of Central and ___China. They live in the bamboo forests there.

Pandas in the wild usually eat bamboo. In zoos, their menu __bamboo, apples and carrots. A giant panda can eat as    ______as 30 kilograms of bamboo a day.

Pandas like to live on  _____own. They need to eat a lot to stay healthy, so they spend more than 12 hours a day ________. Although they are big and heavy, it is not difficult ___________them to climb trees. They are _______to protect themselves.

Pandas live for about 20 years in the wild,  _____in zoos they can live for up to 35 years.

People are cutting down forests, so the pandas  _____their homes. Some people are killing them for their fur. It is cruel of them to do so. There are not many pandas in the world now. It is important for us to protect them.