Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating about 10 kilos of bamboo.

成年大熊猫每天要花12个多小时吃大约10公斤的竹子。

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The two pandas, named Xing Ya and Wu Wen, are both more than 3 years old and will stay in the country for scientific research for 15 years, according to Xinhua.

据新华社报道，这两只大熊猫名为“星雅”和“武雯”，都已超过3岁，并将留在该国进行15年的科学研究。

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Giant pandas in this region are more vulnerable than ever to human disturbance, including post-earthquake reconstruction and tourism.

这个地区的大熊猫比任何时候都更脆弱，容易受到人类干扰的伤害，其中包括震后重建和旅游。

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Yet their genetics have caused pandas to develop more slowly than human beings and other mammals.

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The fate of polar bears weighs on our collective conscience more than pandas because of melting ice caps.

NPR: Environmentalists Point Beyond Global Warming

There are about 600 pandas left in the wild: more than half the bamboo forests where they live have disappeared in the last 30 years.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | UN alert on threat to wild bamboo

China said in May 2005 it would give the island two giant pandas, but their departure was delayed for more than three years.

CNN: China sends goodwill pandas to Taiwan