Pandas

Age

When pandas are newborn, which is 0 to 4 months, they are born tiny, blind, and pink; baby pandas develop a black and white pattern in a month, and begin to crawl at three months. Also, at cubhood, which is 4 to 24 months cubs can run a few steps. They are fully weaned to bamboo at 8 months. At independence, which is when they are 1 and a half to 2 years when cubs leave, their mother depends on if she conceives. At maturity, they are 4 to 6 years old, and female pandas reach sexual maturity at about 4 years old, males at 6 years old. (Wild pandas may be slower). Wild pandas live up to 20 years; pandas in captivity however can live more than thirty. Pandas are dependent on their mothers for the first few months of their lives and are fully weaned at 8 to 9 months. Most pandas leave their mothers when she becomes pregnant again, usually at about 18 months. A panda's average life span in the wild is 14-20 years. But they can live up to 30 years in captivity. There is only one species of There is only one species of pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca or "black-and-white cat foot").