BLACK
AND WHITE BEAR:
The panda roams in a welldefined homerange of between
3.9 and 12 km2. Until recently, much of what we knew
about pandas came from research at the Wolong Nature
Reserve in Sichuan.
Studies
here showed that the panda lived a solitary existence,
meeting only occasionally with other pandas, except
during the very brief mating season in late spring
or early summer when several males come together and
compete for a female. A female is on heat for two
to three days.
