. The Animal Planet channel covered the pregnancy and birth extensively, and an Internet web-camera still shows images of the mother and baby to computers all over the world. The American public got the chance to vote from the cub's names, and there was a contest for the attendance of the naming ceremony; the name was decided to be Tai Shan, meaning "peaceful mountain" in Chinese. With 1600 of them living in the wild and 160 in captivity the giant panda is one of the world's most endangered animals. An endangered species is one that has a strong change of dying off in the near future. In order to understand endangered species completely one must look at how a species gets classified as "endangered," what causes the endangerment, and what can be done to better a species chance for survival.

There are many ways to define a species threat to its continuation on Earth, and many things to consider; the most widely used set of criteria was created by the International Union for......

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Title: Battle Against Death
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Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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