AMAZING GEOGRAPHY

High in dense bamboo forests in the misty, rainy mountains of southwestern China lives one of the world's rarest mammals: the giant panda, also called the panda. Only about 1,000 of these black-and-white relatives of bears survive in the wild. Pandas eat almost nothing but bamboo shoots and leaves. Occasionally they eat other vegetation, fish, or small animals, but bamboo accounts for 99 percent of their diets. Pandas eat fast, they eat a lot, and they spend about 12 hours a day doing it. The reason: They digest only about a fifth of what they eat. Overall, bamboo is not very nutritious. To stay healthy, they have to eat a lot—up to 15 percent of their body weight in 12 hours—so they eat fast. Pandas' molars are very broad and flat. The shape of these teeth helps the animals crush the bamboo shoots, leaves, and stems they eat. To get the bamboo to their mouths, they hold the stems with their front paws, which have enlarged wrist bones that act as thumbs for gripping. A

 bush viper is venomous snake native to African Rainforest . These snakes live in Congo, Uganda and Kenya. There are three subspecies of  bush viper that differ in color, size and type of habitat where they can be found.  bush vipers prefer rainforests that offer plenty of flowering bushes. These snakes are rarely seen in the wild because they inhabit regions that are distant from the human settlements. For the same reason, exact number of remaining  bush vipers in the wild is unknown.  bush vipers are small snakes that can reach 18 to 24 inches in length. Females are larger than males.  bush vipers are usually green, olive green, bluish or brownish in color. They have yellow or pale olive belly. Body ends with ivory-white tail. Brightly colored  bush vipers i.e yellow, red or grey are rarely seen in the wild.  bush vipers have broad head with large eyes, large mouth and slit-like nostrils that are positioned laterally. Body of  bush vipers is covered with scales that are he

Orange Tortoise Spider Look into these colorful spiders. The encyosaccus sexmacculatus(ORANGE TORTOISE SPIDER) usually lives in the upper Amazon basin in Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil and will need a lot of heat in their habitat . 🤔 💡