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Recently, French scientists published an article in the magazine “Biology of Earth” that fossils of giant pandas from 10 million years ago were found in Hungary. This is believed that giant pandas originated in Europe.
Screenshot of the website report of “New Scientist” Photo/Observer Network
This statement surprised many Chinese people! What? Did China’s “national treasure” come from Europe? impossible! Don’t believe it! Didn’t China also discover 800Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawThe fossils of giant panda teeth tens of years ago? It’s just that they are not earlier. Maybe we have evidence that has not been discovered yet? (For more news, please follow Yangchengpai pai.ycwb.com)
Giant panda is China’s “national treasure”. Data picture
”Discover” giant panda
”National treasure” giant panda is famous in the animal world. Not only in China, but all over the world, it is a symbol of the World Fund for Nature. Wherever it goes, men, women, young and old want to see its charm.
The World Fund for Nature is the giant panda
Do you know? As a “living fossil”, it has entered the modern vision with its image, which has not been long; the word “giant panda” Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw has not been long.
The story starts from modern times. China’s doors open after the Opium War, the WestMissionaries came to mainland China. There was a Frenchman named Armand David preaching in Baoxing, Sichuan. Here are mountains overlapping and biological resources are abundant.
David himself is a naturalist, and there is a huge opportunity waiting for him here. In the spring of 1869, David passed by a farmer’s house and found a black and white animal skin hanging on the wall. He had never seen such a strange animal.
A panda statue in Baoxing County, Sichuan Photo/Xinhuanet
He found out that the locals called this animal “flower bear”, “white bear”, “bamboo bear”, etc. David was excited and realized that this might be a newly discovered species. He hired 20 local hunters to launch a search, hoping to find a sample. Ten days later, the hunter sent a little flower bear, but unfortunately he was dead.
David did not give up and continued to hire someone to look for it, and soon caught another one. He was as if he had obtained a treasure Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw and wanted to bring it back to France. However, the pandas could not withstand the bumps and climate change, and died when they were not transported to Babaylan 1990 clothes draw Chengdu. David was deeply regretful and sent the specimens and bones to the National Museum of France for exhibition.
This is the first time that giant pandas have entered the vision of Westerners!
The giant panda “goes to the world” shortly after a time of “going to the world”. Data picture
The Chinese name was “misunderstood”
French professionals believe that this animal that looks like a cat and a bear is neither a cat nor a bear, but another type of big cat bear similar to the kitten bear found in Tibet in China, so it was named “Big Cat Bear”.
But this name only appeared in Latin at that time, and the modern Chinese name did not appear many years later.
The relationship between “little panda” and “giant panda” is not close. Data picture
Speaking of this, we have to add it firstBabaylan 1990 clothes draw: Research has found that although the outside world and modern people believe that this is the first time that giant pandas are discovered, this animal has been recorded in ancient Chinese books, but there were other names at that time, and the names were different. For example, the “Shangshu” called it “Pi”, “Shan Hai Jing” called it “Iron-eating Beast”, “Mao Shi” called it “Bai Feng”, “Emei Mountain Zhi” called it “Pi Xiu”, “Beast Sutra” called it “Hori”, and Li Shizhen called it “Compendium of Materia Medica”…
The Classic of Mountains and Seas depicts many strange animals
The tomb of Empress Dowager Bo from the Western Han Dynasty in Xi’an, 2,100 years ago was also unearthed. Sima Xiangru, who described the royal garden scene during this period, just confirmed it. The article mentioned “tapir”, which is the name of panda at that time.
The mandible of giant panda unearthed in Nanling of the Western Han Dynasty Data picture
When David discovered <a When Babaylan 1990 cloth draw giant panda, he only knew the popular name of the locals, but did not know the literary name. In 1939, 70 years after David introduced giant pandas to the Western world, Chongqing held an animal specimens exhibition. The signs were in international writing format, with Chinese and Latin written, written from left to right. However, the Chinese people's reading habits at that time were still read from right to left, so visitors read the "cat bear" on the label Babaylan 1990 cloth draw as “panda”.
The Chinese are used to calling it “giant panda”. Data picture
The Chinese native animal “Flower Bear” has been named in Chinese for the first time in line with international standards, but it was misread. And after it was widely circulated, people have become used to calling it “giant panda”. A Taiwanese media once published an article to correct its name, but never stubbornly resisted the power of habit.
——Isn’t it just a popular name, it’s called love, why bother to change it!
So “cat bear” has always been called “giant panda” in mainland China!
The giant panda as the image sign of the Beijing Asian Games Data picture
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According to David, giant pandas, a strange-looking, gentle and mysterious Oriental animal, has made Westerners crazy. Many zoos, museums and researchers have dreamed of getting giant pandas.
Curiosity and interests are always the strongest driving force. For a long time, Western explorers were keen to sneak into mountainous areas in mainland China to hunt giant pandas. Their goal was to live giant pandas, but specimens were also purchased and then transported back to the West.
It once became the prey of Western explorers Data picture
This includes the two sons of former US President Roosevelt. The two brothers found nothing in Baoxing County, Sichuan. After entering Daliang Mountain, they finally shot and hunted a giant panda, made a specimen and transported it back to the United States.
Westerns have always wanted to get living giant pandas. Data picture
This situation was not broken until 1936. Ruth, a 35-year-old female designer at New York, was newly married, and her husband William was an avid explorer. Two weeks after getting married, William embarked on the road to search for giant pandas in China, but ended up dying of illness when he arrived in Shanghai. Ruth decided to follow her husband’s footsteps, and went through Chengdu to Wenchuan, setting up traps in the deep mountains and forests to hunt giant pandas. With the help of a Chinese American, Ruth was ecstatic when they caught a furry young giant panda from a tree hole in November of that year.
Ruth put the giant panda in a willow box, left the message “carry a pug with you” on the Shanghai Customs Registration Form, and then stole out of the customs and boarded a ship to the United States.
She brought the first live panda to the United States Data picture
The first giant panda in world history is about to land in the United States, which caused a great sensation in the West. It was Christmas and Americans held a grand welcoming ceremony on the San Francisco Pier. Since then, the giant panda has been exhibited everywhere, and it has caused a sensation wherever it goes.
Five or six years later, the United States and Britain each stole nine giant pandas from China. In modern China, where wars are raging, giant pandas are so missed by Westerners. This is another kind of pain for the Chinese people!
It only survived for a year after it arrived in the United States Data picture
The baby is so “tangled”
There are many mysteries and contradictions in the “living fossil” giant panda. For example, although it is clearly a “carnivorous” animal, it eats bamboo every day; if it is said that it loves to eat vegetarian food, but does not have the complex stomach and huge cecum of herbivorous animals, and there are no symbiotic bacteria and ciliates in the stomach that can ferment cellulose into nutrients.
The Creator is really “worrying” after evolving into this! Can liveIt’s really not easy to survive until today!
It is a miracle of evolution and a strange thing. Data picture
The only habitat of giant pandas is currently the high mountain valley area in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China. This range spans 45 counties in Sichuan, Shanxi and Gansu provinces. The number of wild populations is about 1,600, and more than 80% are distributed in Sichuan.
Distribution of giant panda population in my country Data map
There are more than 50 plants in the wild giant panda recipes, and bamboo accounts for only half of the species, but 99% of the number.
As a carnivore, its digestive tract is as short as other carnivores. This means that the bamboo it eats must be discharged as soon as possible to make room for more food so that it can intake enough nutrients under extensive absorption.
The giant panda eats all day. Data picture
In addition, bamboo itself is difficult to digest and has low nutritional content. It can fill its stomach with “Babaylan 1990 cloth draw fills its stomach”, it can only eat all day, and it will be a dayKomiks 1960 witch clothes draweat half of the time. At the same time, in order to reduce consumption, I have to sleep all day, and I spend almost the rest of my time!
It’s thisYou can fall asleep even while sitting. Data picture
Of course, after all, in the “carnivorous” order, there is also a side of the nature of wanting to eat meat. Bamboo rat is one of its delicacies. Although giant pandas are slow to move, they have a way to catch bamboo rats. It found the rat hole by smell and blew vigorously inward. At the same time, it slapped the ground with its front paws. When the bamboo rat was frightened and fled, it pounced on it and let it go. If the bamboo rat is unmoved, it will dig the soil and search the house until it catches it. Of course, catching bamboo rats is just an occasional thing. In its opinion, it is not cost-effective to spend so much effort. If you want to fill your stomach, you have to rely on bamboo that you can use everywhere.
A giant panda once attacked a peacock in Wuhan. Data picture
It’s hard to imagine that with such entangled physiological characteristics, the giant panda became a “living fossil”. Paleobiological data show that in the late Miocene period 8 million years ago, pandas lived in the Lufeng and Yuanmou areas of Yunnan. That has been around since the era of saber-toothed elephants!
Of course, perhaps it is the giant panda that constantly adjusts itself during the evolution process that it can survive; it is precisely because of the continuous adjustment of Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw that its physiological characteristics are so strange today!
The giant panda has been around since the saber-toothed elephant era to the present Picture/@回回官网
Super cute and cute
The fame of giant pandas is probably not simply explained by “scarcity is precious”. After all, there are more animals in the world than it is. Which one has the treatment of its star? It should be said that the key is that it is full of charm!
The charm of giant pandas lies in their appearance.
ChuduKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawWith a dumb body, a round Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw face, dense and soft fur, and a distinct black and white color scheme, this is not the qualification of a cute pet! Especially the distribution of black and white is by no means random, with dark circles, black ears, black legs and feet, and other parts clearly defined and all white. This accurate color scheme is really amazing!
It has a beautiful color matching with distinct black and white. Data picture
The second is temperament.
The giant panda walks insideCinema 1950 witch cloth draw steps in the eight characters, shaking and cute. Its temperament is always low-key and docile. Except for being aggressive in the estrus and nurturing periods, it usually keeps its eyes silent, only cares about eating and sleeping, and rarely provokes others.
Giant pandas sleep half of their time. Data picture
Sometimes they meet similar or other animals on the way foraging, and they will take the initiative to give way, and even climb on the trees to avoid them. Such a “gentle” nature is really rare!
Although they are obese, they have the ability to climb trees easily. Data picture
They sleep in a more cute way, lying flat, lying on their side, lying prone, stretching, or curling up. You can fall asleep in any positionCinema 1950 witch clothes draw. Sometimes I go to bed while eating. When sleeping, I often use my obese “bear paws” to cover my eyes…
Cute and shyly covering one eye Data picture
Third, giant pandas have a naughty and playful side.
Wild giant pandas sometimes go down to the valleys, enter the village human residences, use round utensils such as buckets and basins as toys, and abandon them after playing. Sometimes they break into sheep pens and pigpens, eat and live with them!
The giant panda has a naughty and playful side Data picture
The mystery of origin is to be solved
After understanding this magical life, we will return to the controversial topic: How to solve the mystery of the origin of giant pandas?
Looking back at the research on paleontology of the origin of giant pandas, the academic community has experienced twists and turns. In 1942, a fossil panda teeth was discovered in Hungary. This ancient creature lived 7 million years ago. At that time, the academic community believed that Chinese pandas should be the descendant of this ancient panda, so there was a saying that “Chinese European species”. For a long time, although Chinese scholars did not agree, there was no evidence to refute it.
The discovery of giant panda teeth fossils Data map
In the 1980s, the Lufeng Basin and Yuanmou Basin in Yunnan, ChinaCinema 1950 witch cloth draw Ancient panda fossils were discovered in the strata 8 million years ago. This discovery strongly countered the claim of Western scholars, proving that giant pandas are authentic Chinese species.
So, about giant bearsKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawThe origin of cats has been no longer controversial for a long time.
Ancient panda bone fossils discovered in Yunnan Data map
And on October 27 this year, the website of the famous international magazine “New Babaylan 1990 cloth draw” published a report saying that Canadian paleoanthropologists discovered another group of paleobi teeth fossils 10 million years ago in Hungary, which was identified by French scientists as Komiks 1960 witch clothes drawAncient giant panda teeth. French scholars’ statements were published in the journal Earth Biology.
The New Scientist also mentioned that in 2012, scientists also discovered fossils of ancient giant panda teeth in Spain. This also provided evidence for the claim that giant panda ancestors originated in Europe and later moved to Asia.
Komiks was discovered in Spain. 1960 witch cloth drawRecovery of panda close relatives Data picture
Western scholars also proved the possibility that giant panda ancestors moved from Europe to Asia from the perspective of climate change. They believe that Europe’s climate was humid and warm 5 million years ago, and Hungary had dense subtropical forests. But after that, the climate change forests disappeared, and the giant panda ancestors left in Europe became extinct, and those who moved to Asia could survive and prolong.
Of course, academic cognition will change. Perhaps new evidence will be released tomorrow, and the conclusion will change. We can also assume that panda relatives existed in ancient times, in Asia, Europe or more places, but later in other places, only China has continued to this day. However, our hypothesis lacks evidence.
Its origin is still unclear. Data picture
The dispute over the origin is still uncertain, but it will not change the reality that giant pandas are China’s “special product”. This is glory, and it is also a responsibility. The increasingly powerful China must protect this national treasure-level “living fossil”, protect this cute elf that is envied by foreigners, and let it stay in this beautiful planet in harmony with mankind forever!
Each of protecting animals is responsible. Data picture
The giant pandas today are Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawThe messenger of world peace. Data map
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