The giant panda loves bamboo. An adult panda requires
kilograms of bamboo, which it 61.___________(hungry) pulls out with its powerful paws, to satisfy its daily needs.
Wild pandas live only in the high bamboo forests of Central China. These mountain forests are cool and wet—just as pandas like it. In summer, they may climb as high as 4, 000 meters to help themselves to bamboo 62. ___________ (grow) at higher altitudes.
Frequently, pandas 63. ___________(see) eating in a relaxed sitting position, with their back legs stretched out before them. 64.___________they may appear inactive, they are in fact skilled tree-climbers and efficient swimmers.
Giant pandas are unsociable. They have a highly developed sense of smell that males use 65.___________(avoid) each other and to find females for mating in the spring. After a five-month pregnancy, a female gives birth 66.___________a cub. The blind baby pandas weigh only 142 grams and cannot crawl(爬行)67.___________they reach three months of age. 68.___________are born white, and develop their much loved colouring later.
There are only about 1,000 giant pandas left in 69.___________wild, with perhaps another 100 in zoos. Because they are so rare, much of 70.___________we know about pandas comes from studying these zoo animals.