Tian Tian,a Giant Panda

Tian Tian, a Giant Panda

This is Tian Tian. He is a giant panda. Most giant pandas have black and white fur like Tian Tian.

Tian Tian has black fur around his eyes. Raccoons have black fur around their eyes, too. But Tian Tian is not a raccoon. He is a bear. All giant pandas are bears.

Tian Tian was born in China. He now lives at a zoo in the United States. He came to the United States when he was three years old. In China, he lived at a special place for pandas.

China is the only place where wild giant pandas live. They live in mountain forests. There are only about 1, 600 wild giant pandas in China.

All giant pandas eat a plant called bamboo. Bamboo grows in the mountain forests in China. More people are cutting down the forests. Without bamboo, giant pandas cannot survive.