A new study may help conservationists understand this potential for human activitiws to distrub giant pandas in native habitats. Using captive pandas, conservation scientists worked with animal care specialists to determine pandas' range of hearing sensitivity, discovering that that they can detect sound into the ultrasonic range. Because giant pandas depend in large part on information transmitted through vocalizations for reprodictive success, noise from human activities in or near forest areas could be disruptive.
Source: Zoological Society of San Diego
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