The breeding method is as follows:

Female giant pandas go into estrus once a year, and each time only lasts for 2 to 3 days. The estrus period usually occurs from March to May every year.

Adult male and female giant pandas gradually gather in one place to understand and attract each other, mainly through odor and smell (by leaving scent marks and sniff marks). Continuous bleatings, bird calls, and mating postures and other auditory and visual communication methods express love and achieve mating.

In giant panda mating venues, sometimes there are as many as 2 to 5 male giant pandas fighting and competing with each other and successfully mating with the same female giant panda. There are also cases where there is only one male and one female giant panda. mating situation. Mating occurs mostly on the ground, but also in trees. At the mating scene, there were also sub-adult giant pandas and giant pandas with weak mating abilities watching and learning.

The male giant panda’s estrus behavior occurs when the female giant panda’s estrus behavior occurs, and also reaches its climax when it reaches its climax.

In the same estrus season, a male giant panda can mate with multiple female giant pandas, and a female giant panda can also mate with multiple males. Therefore, there are many marriages in the giant panda world. Polyandrogenetic system. After mating is completed, the male and female giant pandas live separately again. Pregnancy, childbirth, and child rearing are completed by the female giant panda alone.

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The skin of newborn giant pandas is pink with sparse white hair. In the first few weeks after it is born, the giant panda mother will hold the baby in her arms to warm and protect it, almost never leaving it, and hold it in her mouth when moving. At this point, captive giant pandas are the same as wild giant pandas. If you see a giant panda mother licking her baby, she is probably helping her baby defecate.

During giant panda nurturing, the cry of the cub is a very important communication tool between the mother and the cub. The cub wants to feed, defecate, is cold or overheated, or feels unwell due to other reasons. They all use different calls to remind the female animal to meet its different needs.

After 1 to 2 weeks, the areas with black hair begin to become darker. Over the course of a month, they slowly grow black ears, eye sockets, legs and shoulder straps, becoming more like their mother. When the cubs are 6 to 8 weeks old, they can open their eyes and start to grow teeth; after three months, they can slowly crawl.

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