Who is Seul?Seul is a giant panda who currently lives in the Asheboro Zoo in North Carolina. He was sent from Hong Kong, where a woman found him by the street, his mother dead. Seul is the last panda remaining.
Like all pandas, Seul was born he size of a stick of butter. He is four feet tall, the average height of a pandas, and at five years old, Seul weighs about 225 pounds, which is between the 220 to 330 pound average for a giant panda. Seul eats a healthy diet of bamboo, twenty-five pounds in the morning and twenty-five pounds in the evening on average. |
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A Pandas Role on EarthPandas act as bees when it comes to bamboo. Giant pandas will eat the bamboo and seeds will get stuck on their fur, and when the pandas travel around for more bamboo, the seeds fall off, much like a bee with pollen. This helps spread the bamboo seeds for future growing.
Giant pandas also act as population control. Since they can eat up to eight-four pounds of bamboo a day, this keeps the bamboo amount kept down. Since bamboo grows a lot in a short amount of time, bamboo could easily start stripping away the nutrients from the ground, killing the bamboo in that area. Giant pandas will keep this size down, while spreading around seeds in case they eat too much. Pandas also bring tourists to China. If we can increase the population and health of the pandas in China, China's economy will grow and not need to kill the pandas for money. They could just set up national parks that tourists can come see. |