大熊猫 - 英语听力.mp3

大熊猫 - 英语听力.mp3
[00:00.180]Exercise 2.The...
[00:00.180]Exercise 2.The giant panda
[00:04.440]The giant panda has a very distinctive black-and-white coat,
[00:08.692]and adults measure around 1.5 meters long and around 75 centimeters tall at the shoulders.
[00:17.689]Males and females can weigh up respectively to 253 pounds and 220 pounds.
[00:26.688]Giant pandas live in mountainous regions,
[00:29.936]such as Sichuan, Gansu and Tibet.
[00:34.441]And the panda has also become an informal national emblem for China,
[00:39.691]and its image is found on many Chinese gold coins.
[00:44.696]Despite being a type of animal living on meat,
[00:47.714]the panda's diet is primarily plants which almost exclusively consist of bamboo.
[00:55.468]This is an evolutionary recent adaption.
[00:59.220]However, panda lack a proper chemical substance to digest bamboo efficiently,
[01:05.210]and thus derive little energy and protein from it.
[01:09.216]Now what worries us most is that giant pandas are an endangered species, threatened by continued habitat loss and by a very low birthrate , both in the wild and in the zoo.
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