Giant Panda Portrait
by Barry Kent MacKay
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$490
Dimensions
9.000 x 12.000 x 0.500 inches
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Title
Giant Panda Portrait
Artist
Barry Kent MacKay
Medium
Painting - Oil On Compressed Bamboo
Description
Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). This famous bear species is endemic to south central China. While they will rarely eat meat or other grasses or other food, like any other bear, nearly the entire diet consists of various forms of bamboo, and then only at specific stages of the bamboo’s development. Farming and deforestation have drove it to near extinction. The wild population has consistently remained below 2000 animals, with a few hundred in captivity. It has become emblematic of The People’s Republic of China. Bamboo is low in nutriment value, and high in cellulose, indigestible to most animals. But baby Giant Pandas, who are born with no intestinal bacteria, obtain the bacteria required to break down cellulose by ingesting their mother’s feces. As an adult, on average a Giant Panda will eat some 9 to 14 kg (about 20 to 30 pounds) of bamboo a day, and, fun fact, must defecate up to forty times each day. It is still a low-energy diet and Giant Pandas tend to be relatively inactive. Giant Pandas from the Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi, are more light brown and white, and have smaller skulls but larger molar teeth than other Giant Pandas, and are in the subspecies, A. m. ginlingensis, popularly called the Qinling Panda. This painting is in oils on compressed bamboo and is 12 inches by 9 inches with rounded corners. $490.00.
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March 6th, 2021
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