Endangered Species

By: Jasmine Wooten

Giant Panda

Common Name: Giant

panda

Green Turtles

Common Name: Green turtle; Tortue

comestible, tortue franche,

tortue verte

Size, Weight, WingspanGreenTurtleso Their weight is over 500 kgo The span of their forelimbs

is over 3m and the leatherback turtle can be over 2m long.

Giant Pandaso A large adult panda can

weigh about 220-330 pounds, with males 10 percent larger and 20 percent heavier than females.

o They are about five feet long from nose to rump, with a four to six inch tail.

Giant Panda

DietGiant Panda’s are classified as bears so they have the digestive system of a carnivore. They have a Vegeterian diet and moistly depend on bamboo as their food source. About 1% of their diet is made up of other meat & plants.

Often a panda will hunt for pikas and other small rodents.

Green

Turtle DietWhen less than 8 to 10 inches in length they eat worms, young crustaceans, aquatic insects, grasses and algae. Once green turtles reach 8 to 10 inches in length, they mostly eat sea grass and algae, the only sea turtle that is strictly herbivorous as an adult. Their jaws are finely serrated which aids them in tearing vegetation.

PopulationGiant Pandas

Less than 2,500 mature in the wild.

Population• Green Sea

turtles

Approx. 203,000 nesting females

Location• Giant Pandas

Giant pandas are located in Southwest

china to the east of the Tibetan plateau.

Location

• Green Turtles

Mediterranean Sea, Northeast Atlantic Shelf

Marine, Southern Australian Marine,

ect.

Reproduction of Marine

turtlesDistinguishing male green sea turtles

from females underwater is easy on the rare occasions that you encounter

members of the two sexes together. The males are the ones with the longer tails. But when seen alone, sexing the animals can be tricky and generally requires some

experience.

Interestingly, the sex of the offspring in all sea turtles is not determined when an egg is fertilized. Instead, the sex is determined by the temperature of the sand that surrounds the egg during incubation

The incubation period varies from 50 to 70 days. The eggs usually hatch at night and the newborns quickly scramble seaward.

Reproduction of Giant Pandas Giant PandasPandas are erroneously believed to be

poor breeders, an impression based on the disappointing reproductive performance of captive pandas. Wild panda populations involved in long-term studies are known to have reproductive rates comparable to those of some populations of American black bears, which are thriving.

o The reproductive rate is about one young every two years

o Gestation takes about 95 to 160 days and pandas normally give birth to single young (twins are born more frequently in captivity, when artificial insemination is used).

Climate• Green turtles

While green sea turtles spend most of their time in warmer

water, young turtles sometimes spend their

summers in New England waters.

• Giant Pandas

The climate is actually very similar to Scotland. The

climate in the mountains is temperate with abundant

rainfall and infrequent extremes of temperature

Taxonomic Groupings• Giant Pandas Phylum: Chorclata

Genus: Ailurpoda

Species: Melanoleuca

• Green TurtlesPhylum: Chordata

Genus: Chelonia

Species: C. mydas

Photos Of Giant Pandas

Photos of Green Turtles