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Recently, French scientists published an article in the magazine “Earth Biology” saying that the fossils of giant panda teeth from 10 million years ago were discovered in Hungary. Therefore, it 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? China Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw “national treasure” comes from Europe? impossible! Don’t believe it! Didn’t China also discover giant panda teeth fossils from 8 million years ago? It’s just that they are not early. Maybe we have earlier evidence yet? (For more news, please follow Yangchengpai pai.ycCinema 1950 witch cloth drawwb.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 not been long since it has entered the vision of modern people with its image; the term “giant panda” 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 himselfKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw is a naturalist, and there is a huge opportunity waiting for him. 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 so excited that he wanted to bring it back to France. However, pandas cannot withstand the bumps of the road and climate change, and they die if they are not transported to 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 “misread”
French professionals believe that this animal that looks like a cat and a bear is neither a cat nor a bear, but another big bear similar to the little cat bear found in Tibet in China, so they named it “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 first: the study 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. However, when Babaylan 1990 cloth draw, there was another Komiks 1960 witch cloth The name of draw is different. For example, the Book of Documents calls it “Pi”, the Mountains and Seas Classics” call it “Iron-eating Beast”, the Mao Shi calls it “Bai Feng”, the Emei Mountains and Mountains” call it “Pi Xiu”, the Beasts Classics” call it “Hori”, and the Li Shizhen calls it “Compendium of Materia Medica”…
The Mountains and Seas Classics” are very depictedBabaylan 1990 clothes The mandibles of giant pandas were also unearthed in the tomb of Empress Dowager Bo in the Western Han Dynasty, located in Xi’an. The mandibles of giant pandas, 2,100 years ago, were also unearthed in the tomb of Empress Dowager Bo in Nanling, Western Han Dynasty. Sima Xiangru, who described the royal garden scene during this period, just confirmed it with it. The article mentions “tapir”, which is the name of the panda in Babaylan 1990 cloth draw at that time.
The mandible bone of giant panda unearthed from Nanling of the Western Han Dynasty Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawData picture
When David discovered giant pandas, 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, 70 years later, Chongqing held an animal specimens exhibition. The signs were in international writing format, with Chinese and Latin, written from left to right. But the Chinese at that time were Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawThe reading habit is still to read from right to left, so visitors read the “cat bear” on the sign 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 accustomed 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 of the Beijing Asian Games Data picture
Western poaching craze
After David’s recommendation, 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 living 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 two sons of former US President Roosevelt. Brother Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawThe brothers found nothing in Baoxing County, Sichuan Province. After entering Daliang Mountain, they finally shot and hunted one. DrawThe giant panda was made into a specimen and transported back to the United States.
From then, Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawMany Western national museums had panda specimens. But they never successfully transported a living giant panda.
Westerns have always wanted to get a living giant panda Data picture
This situation was not broken until 1936. Ruth, a 35-year-old female designer in New York, was newly married. Her husband William was an avid explorer. Two weeks after getting married, William embarked on the road to China for giant pandas, but died 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, they caught a furry young giant panda from a tree hole in November of that year, and Ruth was ecstatic.
Rus put the giant panda in a willow box, left the message “carry a pug with you” on the Shanghai Customs Registration Form, and then mingled out of the customs and boarded a steamer to the United States.
She put her first living bodyPanda brought to the United States Data picture
The first giant panda in world history is about to land in the United States, which caused a huge 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 in the “living fossil” giant panda, and there are also contradictions Babaylan 1990 clothes draw. 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! It is not easy to survive until today!
It is a miracle of evolution and a weirdo. Data picture
The only habitat of giant pandas at present is 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.
Giant pandas eat all day long Data picture
In addition, bamboo itself is difficult to digest and has low nutritional content. In order to “fille your stomach”, Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawIt can only eat all day and eat half of the day. 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 can sleep even while sitting. Data picture
Of course, after all, in the “Carnivorous EaterBabaylan 1990 cloth draw“, it has the side of wanting to eat meat in its nature. 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 based on the smell, blew vigorously inward, and slapped the ground with its front paws. When the bamboo rat was frightened and fled, it pounced on it and let it die. 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 bamboos 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 can survive; it is precisely because of its continuous adjustment that its physiological characteristics are so strange today!
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The charm of giant pandas lies in their appearance.
The chubby body, round face, dense and soft fur, and distinct black and white color scheme. This is not a qualification for 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 are clearly bounded and all white. This accurate color scheme is really amazing!
It has a beautiful color matching with black and white. Data picture
The second is temperament.
The giant panda walks inside with horoscopes, shaking and cute. Its temperament is always low-key and docile. Except for being aggressive in the estrus and nurturing periods, it usually droops silently, only focusing on eating and sleeping, and rarely provokes others.
Giant pandas sleep half of their time Data picture
Sometimes Babaylan 1990 clothes drawWhen they encounter similar or other animals on the way foraging, they will take the initiative to give way, and even climb on the trees to avoid it. It is rare to be so “gentle” by nature!
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, prone, stretching, or curling up in any positionEven the momentum can fall asleep. Sometimes I go to bed while eating. When sleeping, I often use my obese “bear paws” to cover my eyes…
Cute and shy cover one eye. Data picture
Third, giant pandas have a naughty and playful side.
Wild giant pandas sometimes go down to the valley and enter the village human settlements. They use round utensils such as buckets and basins as toys, and then discard them in the mountains after playing. Sometimes I would break into the sheep pen and pig pen and 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, let’s return to the controversial topic: How to solve the mystery of the origin of giant pandas?
Looking back at the research on the origin of giant pandas, the academic community’s understanding is full of twists and turns. In 1942, a fossil of a panda’s 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 descendants of this ancient panda, so there was a saying that “Chinese European race”. For a long time, although Chinese scholars disagree, there was no evidence to argue.
The discovery of giant panda teeth fossils Data map
In the 1980s, ancient panda fossils were discovered in the Lufeng Basin and Yuanmou Basin in Yunnan, China in the strata 8 million years ago. This discovery strongly countered the statement of Western scholars, proving that giant pandas are authentic Chinese species.
So, there is no dispute over the origin of giant pandas for a long time.
Ancient panda bone fossils discovered in Yunnan Data map
On October 27 this year, the website of the famous international journal “New Scientist” published a report saying that Canadian paleoanthropologists found another group of paleobial teeth fossils 10 million years ago in Hungary, which was identified as ancient giant panda teeth by French scientists. The conclusion of French scholars was published in the journal Earth Biology.
The New ScienceCinema 1950 witch cloth draw Scientist” also mentioned that in 2012, scientists also published in Spain href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan 1990 cloth drawThe teeth fossils of ancient giant pandas 11.6 million years ago are revealed. This also provides evidence for the claim that giant pandas originated in Europe and later moved to Asia.
Restoration of panda close relatives found in Spain 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 in ancient times, close relatives of pandas existed in Asia, Europe or more places, but later in other places, only China has continued to this day. However, our hypothesis lacks evidence.
It is still unclear where it originated. Data map
The origin of the placeKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawThe dispute is still uncertain, but it will not change the reality that giant pandas are Chinese “special products”. This is glory, and it is also 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!
We are responsible for protecting animals. Data map
The giant pandas today are the messengers of world peace. Data map
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