Inside the World of the Giant panda

Question 1 · multiple choice

Which field camp would place a researcher closest to the natural home of a Giant panda?

deep tropical reef slopes, rising shallower at night tropical vegetation and cultivated foliage grasslands, farmland, scrub, and wetlands near palms or thorny trees cool mountain forests with dense bamboo

Question 2 · multiple choice

Which food tray most closely copies what a Giant panda normally finds in nature?

mostly bamboo stems, leaves, and shoots fish, birds, mammals, reptiles, and carrion fish, crustaceans, amphibians, and small animals insects and other small animals

Question 3 · multiple choice

Which activity schedule best describes a Giant panda?

often feeds continuously, with timing varying by species spends much of day and night feeding with rest between meals forages by day or night depending on light and prey active by day

Question 4 · multiple choice

A Giant panda must travel through its habitat. Which movement strategy does it actually use?

crawls using tube feet and body-wall contractions flies through water with flipper-like wings and toboggans over ice walks and climbs using inward-turned front paws for grip climbs slowly with gripping feet and a coiling tail

Question 5 · multiple choice

A Giant panda succeeds in its habitat partly because of which adaptation?

powerful claws open hard foods while modified gills breathe moist air nostrils near the bill tip detect prey by smell and touch a prehensile tail anchors the body while camouflage hides it an enlarged wrist bone acts like a thumb for holding bamboo

Question 6 · multiple choice

A wildlife nursery prepares for a young Giant panda. Which developmental fact should guide the team?

tiny cubs are born helpless and depend completely on their mother the female builds a domed nest and raises one chick long strings of eggs are laid in still or slow water females carry eggs beneath the abdomen until larvae hatch

Question 7 · multiple choice

A group-behaviour study follows a Giant panda. Which result should the team expect?

may gather at cleaning stations and rich feeding sites adults are largely solitary and communicate with scent marks colonies contain reproductive adults, workers, and soldiers groups may herd fish into shallows before scooping them

Question 8 · multiple choice

If Giant panda numbers fell sharply, which ecosystem service could be affected?

top predator linking freshwater, estuary, and marine food webs controls aquatic prey in oxygen-poor floodplain habitats moves nutrients and creates trails through dense bamboo habitat controls many insects and feeds birds, reptiles, and spiders

Question 9 · multiple choice

Which defence strategy is actually used by a Giant panda?

withdraws into its shell and seals the opening with a tough hood freezes, sways, drops, and can regrow a lost leg while young places nests over water or thorny branches to reduce access by predators climbs trees when young and uses strong jaws if cornered

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A giant panda wraps its ringed tail around its body like a blanket in cold weather.

True False