The Meaning of Life For Giant Panda
October 2017
This infographic tells a brief story of the meaning of life for pandas including the history of panda, their breeding and mating period, the growing process, their daily habit and finally some of them will become a diplomatic gift of China to other countries. It will brings people a better understanding and knowledge of pandas for the viewers.
Appearance:
The visual potential of appearance is exploited to allow the viewer to quickly understand the topic of this infographic, and the real picture of the cute panda will draw viewer's attention.
Number:
This display shows the unique food intake habit that panda eats in a day. The first one emphasizes the amount of fresh bamboo shoots that panda eats per day.
One bamboo shoots is 400g, and giant panda will eat approximately 100 bamboo shoots per day, which weighs the 2/3 weight of giant panda. This unique habit causes wild pandas hard to find food daily, which is also one of the reasons why giant pandas are so few right now.
This display shows the days and season of mating period for giant pandas. And the short arc to shows the very short female and male pandas associated time. Then the white arc to show the pregnant period. And all the descriptions pointing to the arc will help the viewer to understand the graph and the meaning of mating and breeding period for pandas more.
Relationship:
This relationship display shows the evolution of bear, and it shows how giant pandas doesn't interact with other bear species, which causes the giant panda are so few in now days.
The root part of bamboo in the center in the ancestor for all the other bears and panda. And the dashed lines split to show the giant panda is in different from other bears.
Time:
In this timeline, I want to show the viewer about the fragile growing process of giant panda with real photographs. The viewer can have a better understanding of how pandas look like that shows the looking difference in different stage of giant panda. With the text below the title, the viewer can realize how hard it is for giant panda baby to grow.
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