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         Giant pandas have big heads, heavy body, short tail, rounded ears and plantigrade feet (both heel and toe makes contact with the ground while walking - similar to humans). The ears, eye patches, legs and shoulder band are black while the rest of the body is whitish.
           Though the panda's coat looks furry and nice to touch, it not really is - its fur feels oily and this oil substance protects and insulate the panda from the cool and damp climate it lives in.
           Pandas area generally solitary animals, even avoiding contact with others of its kind. It is believed that their inconspicuous black and white markings help them detect each other from afar thus avoiding close contact with other pandas.

           In the event of accidental meetings, the panda will show its aggression by lowering their heads and staring at their opponents eyes. The loser in this contest will put its head between its front legs, often hind its eye-patches with its paws. Should push come to shove, pandas show their anger by swiping with a paw, or by sounding a low-pitched growl or bark.These self-defence trait is used on other animals too including man.
           Unlike the panda's long distance cousins, the grizzlies, black and brown bears, pandas do not hibernate.Moreover, pandas can't walk on their hind legs and only climb trees when threatened.
           Pandas dislike water. Bathing is a rare occasion and even this, they prefer to waddle instead of diving in.So they must be dirty animals, right? No, the clean themselves by scratching their backs against hard objects such as tree barks and big rocks like "Baloo" in the animated movie "Jungle Book", remember bear nessecities?

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