Organism Interaction
Kingdom:
Kingdom: Animalia
Characteristics:
1. Is a eukaryotic, multicellular, and heterotrophic organism
2. It depends directly or indirectly of plants for their food
3. It reproduces sexually, by the fusion of haploid cells like the eggs and the sperms
Characteristics:
1. Is a eukaryotic, multicellular, and heterotrophic organism
2. It depends directly or indirectly of plants for their food
3. It reproduces sexually, by the fusion of haploid cells like the eggs and the sperms
Limiting Factors:
Biotic:
1. Snow leopards prey on red pandas
2. Deforestation of their habitats by humans
3. Humans poaching the red pandas
Abiotic:
1. Temperature decline or increase
2. Forest fires
3. Drought
1. Snow leopards prey on red pandas
2. Deforestation of their habitats by humans
3. Humans poaching the red pandas
Abiotic:
1. Temperature decline or increase
2. Forest fires
3. Drought
Human Activity:
A huge human impact on the red panda is the destruction of their habitat. The bamboo that the pandas rely on for food is cut down and used as a material to build houses. Some of the deciduous forests that red pandas live in are made into fields for cattle to graze. Red Pandas are also poached for their fur. In China, their coats are used in weddings and cultural ceremonies. The pandas are also being illegally sold to zoos around the world.
Symbiotic Relationships:
Parasitism: The red panda and the bamboo has a parasitism relationship because while the plant is being harmed, the panda is benefiting by getting the nutrients it needs by eating the bamboo.
Mutualism: The relationship with the bacteria in the stomach that lives off eating the undigested food that could harm the red panda if not removed by the bacteria.
Commensalism: It is between the red panda and the evergreen where it lives. The red panda is benefiting with the protection that the forest provides, while the evergreen forest is neither being harmed nor benefited.
Mutualism: The relationship with the bacteria in the stomach that lives off eating the undigested food that could harm the red panda if not removed by the bacteria.
Commensalism: It is between the red panda and the evergreen where it lives. The red panda is benefiting with the protection that the forest provides, while the evergreen forest is neither being harmed nor benefited.
Innate Behavior:
1. The red panda is nocturnal meaning that it doesn't sleep during the day but at night.
2. Another example is curling up with its face hidden to keep warm when the weather is cold or sometimes when it's sleeping.
2. Another example is curling up with its face hidden to keep warm when the weather is cold or sometimes when it's sleeping.