31 Listen and read.Every year in December Nur-Sultan becomes an ice city! People use icebricks to make sculptures. The sculptures are usually animals, castles, fairytale characters or famous buildings like Big Ben or Baiterek Tower inthe evening different coloured lights shine on all the sculptures. They lookfontasticYou must visit Nur-Suitan in December. It's magical {\__/}( ° • ° ) |>♡​

The Giant Panda is one of the most famous, but also the most rare animals. Now in the wild remains very little of pandas, but over the past years made great efforts to ensure their survival."Black glasses" and charming appearance earned Pande not only fame, but also the universal love.This chunky clodhopper and appearance is similar to a bear. The main color of his shaggy fur coat white, but paws, chest, shoulders and ears are black. The same black stains hide small, almost feline eyes with vertical slits of the pupils.A very useful feature of the Panda is kind of thumb on forepaws. In fact it is overgrown with fleshy pads of carpal bones., shoots the Panda dexterously suffices sterns.Big Panda diet are leaves, stems and young bamboo shoots. Adult Panda consumes 10-20 kg of bamboo a day, but maybe more. Do not disdain the pandas and other plant food.Being able to stand on its hind legs, squat big pandas, however, always move on all four razvalistoj, kosolapoj gait. In the case of Chase they are clumsy Lynx, but quickly get tired and do not maintain individual pace. Excellent spidermen, they often climb on the lower branches of trees and foraging to relax or escape from danger.Where live pandasThe wild Giant Panda is found only in a few overgrown by Rainforest cold mountainous regions of Central and southern China, at altitudes of 1200 to 4000 m.It was there that their favorite delicacy-bamboo. The total area of their Habitat is about 30000 km sq, but considered that pandas live on no more than 6000 km sq. In native Woods each Panda gets own territory that marks the border trees vydelenijami odorous jelly). Sometimes these areas may overlap, but usually animal avoid each other, leading a solitary life.Giant pandas can stand on its hind legs, squat but quickly get tired and, whenever possible, not away.Giant pandas-night animals are awake from dusk until dawn. In the afternoon they sleep and rest, but not in the Lair, and in a secluded place somewhere among rocks or even in the hollow of a tree.The pandasAlthough the big Panda carry to carnivores, the basis of its diet is vegetable niŝa, especially the leaves, shoots and stalks of bamboo. Having taken seat somewhere and bamboo thickets, the beast breaks off forepaws young plants and methodically eats all delicacy-leaves, shoots and stems.In the waking hours, or about 4:0 pm in the day, the Panda almost all the time is busy eating. To save weight, it requires a huge amount of bamboo-in part because vegetarian food is not too nutritious, and partly because the digestive system of a Panda is not as effective as other herbivores. If most of roughly 80% assimilates herbivorous foods, the Panda is just 17%.In addition to bamboo, big Panda willingly eats also other vegetative forage-grass, flowers, mushrooms, tubers, roots and bark, and also small mammals and fish which manage to catch. Takes it and carrion. The bear manners Panda suit raids and bee nests.The Panda Cub is born blind and so tiny that the first weeks of the female is almost not released it from the clutches of the. A month later, on his coat are black spots.ProtectionIn a relatively short period of time after the opening of the giant pandas are so reduced that the animal is officially attributed to the number of species facing extinction. Of course, the Panda was considered a valuable hunting trophy, but the main cause of its extinction was deforestation-its natural habitat. As a result, small areas are small isolated groups of pandas, which inevitably leads to the inbred and weakening the species gene pool.Moreover, it is known that bamboo plants, depending on the species, are killed every 40-120 years. In earlier times, wandering on huge territories, pandas simply rushed back to where it was more bamboo. Now, however, their migration routes are often blocked by human settlements or agricultural land.The danger hanging over the big pandas, the symbol of the World Wide Fund for nature, has awakened worldwide interest, and since the late 50 's, the Chinese Government is taking serious measures to protect them. In some mountain areas of established reserves. There is also a State Scientific Center, student programs and increase the number of pandas in the wild.According to forecasts once made by the 2000 year in nature should not remain any big panda. However, there is hope that, thanks to international efforts, this remarkable animal will remain in native mountain woods.