1. By Samantha Clary

2.  Live in mountain ranges in China, Suchuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu.  Restricted to the mountain areas-used to live in lowland areas.  Live in broadleaf and coniferous forests with a dense understory of bamboo, elevations of 5,000 and 10,000ft.

5.  Size of an American Black Bear.  Diet: 99% Bamboo, grasses, and small rodents or musk deer fawns.

8.  Reach reproductive maturity at about 4-8 years old.  May be reproductive until 20 years old.  Ovulate once a year in the spring.  Takes 95 to 160 days until birth.  There naturally slow birth rate prevents a population from recovering from illegal hunting, habitat loss and other human related mortality.  Reach reproductive maturity at about 4-8 years old.  May be reproductive until 20 years old.  Ovulate once a year in the spring.  Takes 95 to 160 days until birth.  There naturally slow birth rate prevents a population from recovering from illegal hunting, habitat loss and other human related mortality.

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