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Buckles and Friends!
Buckles Overview
In 1999, we unveiled Buckles. Buckles is a panda bear dressed in a State Police uniform reminding children and adults alike to "Buckle Up!" The panda bear was chosen because it was rated as the most popular bear. There are only approximately one thousand panda bears left in the world so we wanted to draw the parallel that panda bears are as precious as children, they can't be replaced.
When the Louisiana State University graduate students proposed the campaign, they devised a jingle sung to "If you're happy and you know, clap your hands." They wrote the following jingle sung to that tune:
If you're safe and you know it, buckle up,
If you're safe and you know it, buckle up,
If you're riding in a car, no matter how far,
If you're safe and you know it, buckle up.
Since Buckles introduction, he has been seen on billboards, Public Service Announcements, brochures, tray liners at McDonald's restaurants, school presentations, bumper stickers, book covers, fuzzy stickers, tattoos, and as a beanie baby. Buckles remains popular with Troopers and the public.
 Panda Facts
Giant pandas are bear like in their shape with striking black and white markings. The ears, eye patches, legs and shoulder band are black - the rest of the body is white. Pandas have thick, woolly coats to insulate them from the cold.
Giant pandas are among the rarest mammals in the world. There are fewer than 1,000 in the wild. The panda's main threats of extinction are deforestation and the segmentation of its remaining habitat and poaching.
Giant pandas are found only in the mountains of central China. Giant pandas live in dense bamboo and coniferous forests at altitudes of 5,000 to 10,000 feet.
The mountains are shrouded in heavy clouds with torrential rains or dense mist throughout the year.
Adult giant pandas are four to six feet long and may weigh up to 350 pounds.
The giant panda reaches sexual maturity between four and six years of age. Females are in estrus for only one to three weeks out of the year, usually between March and May, and in that brief period, are at peak receptiveness for only a few days.
Litters range from one to three cubs, but usually only one survives. In the wild, cubs are weaned at nine months but may remain with their mothers until 18 months or older.
Giant pandas do not breed well in captivity. There are currently about 110-120 giant pandas in captivity with the majority of those in China. There are only two zoos in the United States exhibiting giant pandas, the San Diego Zoo and Zoo Atlanta.
The giant panda is known as the panda bear or bamboo bear, or in Chinese as "Daxiongmao, the large bear cat."
Giant pandas have existed since the Pleistocene Era - approximately 600,000 years ago.
Unlike other bear species, the giant panda does not hibernate and can not walk on its hind legs.
The giant panda has unique front paws - one of the wrist bones is enlarges and elongated and is used like a thumb, enabling the giant panda to grasp stalks of bamboo.
Giant pandas eat 20 to 40 pounds of food each day, mostly bamboo, and spend ten to 16 hours per day feeding.
In 1936, clothing designer Ruth Harkness brought the first live giant panda, names Su-Lin, out of China and to the West. Su-Lin lived at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo and was a celebrity until he died in 1938.
In 1980, the first giant panda birth outside China occurred at the Mexico City Zoo.
Games
Breakout - Bounce a ball off a paddle to destroy blocks!
Missile Commando II - Protect your bases from falling missiles!
Star War - Not the movie, but a fun game where you use your spaceship to shoot falling stars!
Word Search - See how many words you can find!
Find the Car - Find the hidden pictures by connecting the dots!
Find Our State Bird - Find the hidden pictures by connecting the dots!
Build A Mechanical Dog - Put the parts together to create your very own mechanical dog!
Memory - Test your memory by remembering the different colored pairs of boxes!
Buckles Puzzle - Put Buckles and his friends back together!
Badge Puzzle - Put the LSP Badge back together!
Camaro Puzzle - Put the LSP Camaro back together!
Command Post Puzzle - Put the LSP Command Post back together!
Helicopter Puzzle - Put the LSP Helicopter back together!
Motorcycle Puzzle - Put the LSP Troopers back on their motorcycles!
New Orleans Puzzle - Put the LSP Trooper back on his motorcycle in front of St. Louis Cathedral!
Newton's Law Puzzle - Put the Newton's Law billboard back together!
State Trooper Puzzle - Put the Trooper's car back together!
Peg Puzzle - Jump the pegs in hopes of leaving only one!
UFO - Color the UFO with the lollypop colors!
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