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Original text of Yangcheng School/Xia Yang
Recently, French scientists published an article in the magazine “Earth Biology” saying that fossils of giant pandas from 10 million years ago were found 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? Did China’s “national treasure” come 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.ycwb.com)
Giant pandas are China’s “national treasure”Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw Data picture
”Discover” giant pandas
”National treasure”Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawPanda 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 era with its current imageThis time is not long in human vision; the term “giant panda” does not last long.
The story starts from modern times. After the Opium War, China’s doors opened and Western missionaries came to mainland China. A Frenchman named Armand David preached in Baoxing, Sichuan. Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw. Here the mountains overlap Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, and they are rich in biological resources.
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 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!
BigKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawPanda panda “goes to the world” shortly after data picture
The Chinese name was “misread”
French professionals believe that Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawThis animal that looks like a cat and a bear is neither a cat nor a catIt is not a bear, but another big bear similar to the kitten bear found in Tibet, China, and named it “Big 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 Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw First add: 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, but Babaylan 1990 cloth drawThere was another name at that time, Babaylan 1990 cloth draw and the names were different. For example, the Book of Documents calls it “Pi”, the “Shan Hai Jing” calls it “Iron-eating Beast”, the “Mao Shi” calls it “Bai Feng”, the “Emei Mountain Records” calls it “Pi Xiu”, the “Beast Sutra” calls it “Cho”, and the Li ShizhenKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawCompendium of Materia Medica” calls it “Tapir”…
The Classic of Mountains and Seas depicts many strange animals
The tomb of Empress Dowager Bo from Nanling, Western Han Dynasty, located in Xi’an, 2,100 years ago was also unearthed. Sima Xiangru, who described the royal garden scene during this period, just confirmed it with it, and the article mentioned “tapir”, which is the name for panda at that time.
WesternCinema 1950 witch cloth drawThe mandible bones of giant pandas unearthed in Hannanling Data 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, a live specimens exhibition in Chongqing held an animal specimens exhibition. The signs were in international writing format, with Chinese and Latin, 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 “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 the mountainous areas of mainland China to hunt giant pandas. Their goal was to live giant pandas, but the specimens were also purchased and then transported back to the West.
It once became the prey of Western explorers Data Photo
This includes 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 and made a specimen and transported it back to the United States.
After many years, many Western national museums had panda specimens. But they never successfully transported a living giant panda.
Westerns always want to get living giant pandas. Data picture
This situation was not broken until 1936. Ruth, a 35-year-old New York female designer, was newly married. Her husband William was an avid explorer. Two weeks after her marriage, William stepped onto the ground.Komiks 1960 witch clothes Draw The country searched for the road to giant pandas, but died of illness when they 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, boarded a steamer 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 at that time, and Americans held a grand welcome ceremony on the San Francisco Pier. Since then, the giant panda was exhibited everywhere, and everywhere they go.
Five or six years later, the United States and the United Kingdom each stole nine giant pandas from China. In modern China, the war-torn giant pandas were so thought of 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
Babaylan 1990 cloth draw BabyCinema 1950 witch clothes drawIt’s so “tangled”
There are many mysteries in the “living fossil” giant panda, and there are also contradictions. For example, it is obviously a “carnivorous” animal but 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.
Evolved into this, the Creator is really “tangled”! It’s not easy to survive until today!
It is a miracle of evolution and also a weird. Data picture
At present, the only habitat of giant pandas 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 four Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawCity
Distribution of giant panda population in my country Data picture
There are more than 50 plants in the wild giant panda recipe, and bamboo accounts for only half of its species and 99% of its 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 Babaylan 1990 cloth draw can be absorbed by the crude Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw//comicmov.com/”>Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawIntake enough nutrition.
Giant pandas eat all day. Data picture
In addition, bamboo itself is difficult to digest and has low nutritional content. In order to “fille your stomach”, it can only eat all day and eat half of the day. At the same time, in order to reduce consumption, it has to sleep and sleep all day. In addition, Cinema 1950 witch clothes drawI sleep almost half the time!
It can sleep even if you sit Data picture
Of course, after all, in the “carnivorous”, there is a side of its nature that wants 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 finds the mouse hole based on the smell, blows it vigorously, and slaps the ground with its front paws. When the bamboo rat is frightened and flees, it pounces on it and kills it. If the bamboo rat is not moved, it will dig the soil and search the house until it catches it.
Of course, catching bamboo rats is only occasionally. 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 in Wuhan once attacked the peacock. Data picture
It is hard to imagine that with such entangled physiological characteristics, giant pandas have become “living fossils”. Paleobiological data show that in the late Miocene period 8 million years ago, pandas lived in Lufeng and Yuanmou areas in Yunnan. It has been the time of the saber-toothed elephant to survive!
Of course, perhaps it was the giant pandas who kept adjusting themselves during the evolution process that they survived; it was also because they were constantly Babaylan 1990 cloth drawAdjustment, its physiological characteristics are so strange today!
The giant panda has continued from the saber-toothed elephant era to this day Photo/@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. Which one has its star treatment? It should be said that the key is that it is full of charm!
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 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 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 silly. Its temperament is always low-key and gentle. Except for being aggressive in the estrus and nurturing periods, it usually droops silently, only paying attention to eating and sleeping, and rarely provoking others.
Giant pandas sleep half of their time Data picture
Sometimes when 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 them. It is rare to be so “gent” by nature!
Although they are obese, they have the ability to climb trees easily. Data picture
They sleep in a cute way, lying flat, lying on their side, lying prone, stretching, or curling up, and can fall asleep in any position. Sometimes they go to bed while eating. When sleeping, they often use obese “bear paws” to cover their 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 valley, enter village human residences, use round utensils such as buckets as toys, and abandon them after playing. Sometimes they break into sheep pens and pig pens, eat and live with them!
Giant pandas have 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 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 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, ancient panda fossils were found in the strata of 8 million years ago in Lufeng Basin and Yuanmou Basin in Yunnan, China. This discovery strongly hit the claims of Western scholars and proved thatGiant 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
Babaylan 1990 cloth draw And on October 27 this year, the website of the internationally renowned magazine “New Scientist” published a report saying that Canadian paleoanthropologists found another group of paleobial teeth fossils 10 million years ago in Hungary, which were identified as ancient giant panda teeth by French scientists. The conclusions of French scholars 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 11.6 million years ago. This further provides evidence for the claim that the giant panda ancestors originated in Europe and later migrated to Asia.
Restoration of panda relatives discovered in Spain Data map
Western scholars have also proved the possibility of giant panda ancestors moving 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 forests of climate change disappeared, the ancestors of giant pandas left in Europe became extinct, and those who moved to Asia survived.
Of course, academic cognition will change, and 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 became extinct, and only China has continued to Babaylan 1990 cloth draw today. However, our hypothesis lacks evidence.
It is still unclear where it originated. Data picture
OriginThe dispute over the land is still uncertain, but it will not change the reality that giant pandas are China’s “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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