{"id":1315,"date":"2017-03-28T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T07:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/?page_id=1315"},"modified":"2020-11-05T16:05:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T15:05:36","slug":"my-friends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/en\/panda-co\/my-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"My friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:20px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:31px;margin-left:0px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:40;line-height:1.4;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">The meerkat<\/span><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img width=\"702\" height=\"589\" alt=\"(photo de la province de Sichuan)\" title=\"animaux-les-suricates-avec-bulles-panda&#038;co&#8211;ANGLAIS\" src=\"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/animaux-les-suricates-avec-bulles-pandaco-ANGLAIS.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-1755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/animaux-les-suricates-avec-bulles-pandaco-ANGLAIS-200x168.jpg 200w, https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/animaux-les-suricates-avec-bulles-pandaco-ANGLAIS-400x336.jpg 400w, https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/animaux-les-suricates-avec-bulles-pandaco-ANGLAIS-600x503.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/animaux-les-suricates-avec-bulles-pandaco-ANGLAIS.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Let\u2019s learn more about a strange little animal that looks really funny<\/p>\n<p>Scientific name: Meerkat<\/p>\n<p>Continent: Africa, including South Africa, Southern Botswana and Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>Type: mammal<\/p>\n<p>Weight\/size: 600-960g in weight and between 45 to 55 cm tall (if you add the tail it\u2019s 20 cm longer).<\/p>\n<p>Lifespan: 10 years in captivity<\/p>\n<p>Habitat: Open landscapes of sand and stone that stretch as far as the eye can see where it hides in burrows.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a social animal that lives in groups (with friends or family).<\/p>\n<p>Meerkats are very organized in their groups to protect themselves from (nasty) predators like coyotes, big snakes and other carnivores.<\/p>\n<p>You can often spot the \u2018\u2019guard\u201d standing up straight watching over their territory and alerting the others as soon as any kind of danger appears. It\u2019s a brave animal that calls in the others to help is chase away the \u201cbad guys&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I think they look really cute like this in the photo.<\/p>\n<p>They are carnivores and eat all kinds of insects like spiders (yuk!) scorpions (that\u2019s impressive!) small birds, eggs, fruit etc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The female meerkat reproduces when it is one year old and can have up to four litters of 3-5 young per year.<\/p>\n<p>The gestation time is 77 days (the baby finally leaves his hiding place in its mother\u2019s belly).\u00a0 The mother can count on everyone in the group to watch over and educate the offspring.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"max-width:600px;max-height:360px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vfm5kcCXZP4?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>Here is a map of the African continent to locate the countries are where meerkats live.<\/p>\n<p>Click\u00a0 here (source:National g\u00e9o nat) to see the meerkats for yourself.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:40px;margin-bottom:40px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-2 hover-type-none\"><img width=\"800\" height=\"757\" title=\"Carte-suricates\" src=\"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Carte-suricates.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-2148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Carte-suricates-200x189.jpg 200w, https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Carte-suricates-400x379.jpg 400w, https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Carte-suricates-600x568.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Carte-suricates.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:40px;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#005d8c;border-top-width:2px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:31px;margin-left:0px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:40;line-height:1.4;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">The whales<\/span><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-3 hover-type-none\"><img width=\"800\" height=\"600\" title=\"Baleine\" src=\"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Baleine.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-2188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Baleine-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Baleine-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Baleine-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Baleine.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:40px;margin-bottom:40px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p>Why should we be concerned about whales?<\/p>\n<p>Every year, nearly 1,000 whales are killed for commercial purposes.\u00a0 This is still too many, because whales are at the top of the food chain and without them, the marine ecosystems would be disrupted (affecting all living beings and the repercussions that would have on the environment). Of 13 species of whales that exist half of them are threatened.<\/p>\n<p>Hunting is the greatest scourge for these cetaceans. A cultural and ancestral example that still threatens the whale can be found in a Japanese town called Shimonoseki with 280,000 inhabitants, which is one of the last bastions of whaling. Antarctic whale fishing is a tradition dating back almost two thousand years and employs more than 6,000 people.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:40px;margin-bottom:40px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-4 hover-type-none\"><img width=\"587\" height=\"800\" title=\"Antartica\" src=\"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Antartica.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-2170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Antartica-200x273.jpg 200w, https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Antartica-400x545.jpg 400w, https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Antartica.jpg 587w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:40px;margin-bottom:40px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><p>All parts of the animal are used. In South Korea, for example, there is also a four-day festival for whale meat, often eaten in shasimi.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:40px;margin-bottom:40px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-5 hover-type-none\"><img width=\"800\" height=\"534\" title=\"Sashimi\" src=\"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sashimi.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-2172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sashimi-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sashimi-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sashimi-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sashimi.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:40px;margin-bottom:40px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5\"><p>The mayor of Shimonoseki is surprised at the indignation of former whaling countries like the United States and Australia because it does not recognise that whales are endangered. The same is true for Norway and Iceland.<\/p>\n<p>Several countries have made a stand and signed an agreement not to hunt whales for commercial purposes.\u00a0 Cetacean grease was previously used in cosmetics such as lipstick, for example, and it\u2019s thanks to WWF and others that sounded the alarm regarding this ecological threat that this has been stopped.\u00a0 SEA SHEPHERD is another organisation which is highly active in this domain. However all they all work together towards the same objective for the protection of whales for everyone\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n<p>Phew, thank goodness for that. But we remain alert\u00a0as whales continue to be threatened.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:40px;margin-bottom:40px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"><p>Watch my suggested video showing a mother whale and its calf sharing a moment of pure joy together.<\/p>\n<p>Filmed by Pierre Collin in Tahiti<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Florence Gunsett<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"max-width:600px;max-height:360px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pxtXtZvUfkQ?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:40px;margin-bottom:40px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-one-half fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:50%;width:calc(50% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.5 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-6 hover-type-none\" style=\"margin-right:25px;float:left;\"><img width=\"403\" height=\"486\" title=\"LEE-clin-d&#8217;oeil-page-web-&#8216;les-animaux&#8217;-panda&#038;co\" src=\"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LEE-clin-doeil-page-web-les-animaux-pandaco.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-2212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LEE-clin-doeil-page-web-les-animaux-pandaco-200x241.png 200w, https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LEE-clin-doeil-page-web-les-animaux-pandaco-400x482.png 400w, https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/LEE-clin-doeil-page-web-les-animaux-pandaco.png 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-one-half fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:50%;width:calc(50% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.5 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:40px;margin-bottom:40px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"><h3>Visit my blog soon for the next adventure with an even more amazing animal and lots of surprises for you to discover.<\/h3>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1272,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4013,"href":"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1315\/revisions\/4013"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petitchefpanda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}