--- title: Kung Fu Panda: real giant pandas and red pandas — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Kung Fu Panda: real giant pandas and red pandas», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A panda is a true bear with a meat-eater's gut, so it gets little goodness from bamboo and must eat a huge amount and rest --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/) [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/) / Kung Fu Panda: real giant pandas and r… # Kung Fu Panda: real giant pandas and red pandas Lesson 135 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 14 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/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/1/) — A panda is a true bear with a meat-eater's gut, so it gets little goodness from bamboo and must eat a huge amount and rest a lot to save energy. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/2/) — Watch a panda eat and you will see it hold a bamboo stalk like you hold a carrot: an enlarged wrist bone works like an extra thumb. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/3/) — Master Shifu is a red panda, a real animal but not a close cousin of the giant panda; it was called panda first, and the giant panda was named after it. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/4/) — Real giant pandas eat almost only bamboo, about 12 to 38 kilograms a day, and spend about 12 to 14 hours a day eating. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/5/) — Bamboo has little goodness, so pandas must eat a lot and rest to save energy. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/6/) — Pandas have an enlarged wrist bone that works like a thumb to grip bamboo, often called the panda's thumb, though it is not a true thumb. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/7/) — Giant pandas are bears with a meat-eater's gut, so they digest bamboo poorly, and they sometimes eat meat such as small animals when they find it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/8/) — Young pandas really tumble and roll, and pandas are good climbers that can rest high in tree branches. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/9/) — A newborn panda weighs about 100 grams, about a bar of chocolate, while its mother is around 900 times heavier; cubs are born pink and blind, and the black and white fur grows in after a few weeks. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/10/) — Wild giant pandas live in cool, damp mountain bamboo forests in central China, and they do not hibernate because bamboo can be found all winter. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/11/) — Scientists think panda colours help them hide in snow and shade, while black ears and eye patches may send signals; each panda's eye patches are a slightly different shape. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/12/) — Red pandas have their own family; they also eat bamboo and have a thumb-like wrist bone, but they evolved it separately from giant pandas. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/13/) — Red pandas live in cold mountain forests, wrap their thick tail around themselves like a blanket and have fur on the soles of their feet for icy branches. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/14/) — Giant pandas were moved from endangered to vulnerable in 2016 after their numbers rose, thanks to protected forests and bamboo corridors; about 1,800 live in the wild. - ← previous: [Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/) - next →: [Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)