--- title: The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The giant panda sits like a person on a sofa, holds a bamboo stem in its paw and munches for up to 1 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / The Asian forest area: giant pandas, r… # The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears Lesson 107 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 13 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/0/) — The giant panda sits like a person on a sofa, holds a bamboo stem in its paw and munches for up to 14 hours a day, because bamboo gives little energy and its gut, built like a meat-eater's, digests only a small part. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/2/) — Close by, a red panda sleeps in a tree wrapped in its bushy tail, a tapir wades into a pond with its short trunk, and a binturong leaves a smell of buttered popcorn along its branch. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/3/) — In Kung Fu Panda, Po gobbles dumplings and his teacher Shifu is a red panda; real giant pandas live on bamboo, and the red panda is not even a close relative, though both evolved a wrist «thumb» separately. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/4/) — Giant pandas eat bamboo for up to 14 hours a day, often 12 to 38 kilograms, and digest only a small part, because they are bears whose teeth and gut come from meat-eating ancestors. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/6/) — Almost all giant pandas in zoos abroad are lent by China, and cubs born there go to China; Edinburgh Zoo had the only giant pandas in Britain from 2011 to 2023. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/8/) — Bamboo flowers and dies all at once every few decades, so pandas need several kinds of bamboo nearby. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/9/) — Red pandas are not close relatives of giant pandas but a family of their own; both eat bamboo and both have a wrist «thumb», evolved separately, and the red panda was called «panda» first. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/10/) — Tapirs are shy forest animals with short, bendy snouts, related to horses and rhinos; they escape danger by running into water, and their babies have stripes and spots like a watermelon that hide them in the forest light. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/11/) — The binturong, or bearcat, is an Asian tree animal whose urine smells like buttered popcorn because it holds the same chemical, and it has a gripping tail. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/12/) — Sumatran tigers are the smallest tigers, live only on the island of Sumatra and number fewer than about 600, because forests are cut for farms and tigers are hunted; zoos keep a breeding group as insurance. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/13/) — Asian small-clawed otters live in big families and find crabs and shellfish by feeling under stones with clever, finger-like paws; otters for cafés and the pet trade are often caught illegally from the wild, which harms wild otters. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/14/) — Asian forests have great hornbills, peacocks and golden pheasants; peahens choose males with the best tails of eye spots, and a peacock grows a new tail every year. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/15/) — Sun bears are the smallest bears and use very long tongues and long claws to reach honey and insects in logs; sun bears often stand up on their back legs, and in 2023 people claimed a Chinese zoo's sun bear was a person in costume, but it was a real bear. - ← previous: [The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer/) - next →: [The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/108-the-south-american-area-sloths-anteaters-piranhas-giant-otters/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)