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It’s also found in China, as well as in the South Asian countries of Myanmar, Nepal, and India. Like its giant cousin, the lesser panda also eats bamboo. But it also eats grasses, fruits, other plant material, and, sometimes, small animals. Giant pandas are endangered animals. Their natural habitat keeps shrinking each year. But many countries are trying to help China preserve its bamboo forests so that pandas have a place to live. People are also working to increase the number of pandas by breeding them in zoos.
But if they are cornered, they’ll stamp their hind feet and growl. They can grab an enemy with their front paws and kick it with their powerful back feet. LEARN MORE! READ THESE ARTICLES… KOALAS • OPOSSUMS • PLATYPUSES © Michael S. Yamashita/Corbis 56 © 2008 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. RCH LI T GH SE A KANGAROOS Answer: Kangaroos use their back feet to fight. © 2008 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. ★ Find and correct the error in the following sentence: Kangaroos use their tails to fight. DID YOU K © Wolfgang Kaehler/Corbis 58 © 2008 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Li ke Us! A pes are the most humanlike of all animals. Like people, apes do their work during the day and sleep at night. They also live in families and communities like we do. And like humans, apes sometimes fight each other. Great apes, like humans, can learn to use tools. In the wild, some of the apes known as “chimpanzees” use twigs Why do you and leaves as tools. They cleverly poke a twig inside the nests of ants think that the and termites. Then they pull up the twig and eat the insects that cling ability to learn to make and use to it.