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Recently, French scientists published an article in the magazine “Earth Biology” saying that fossils of giant pandas’ teeth from 10 million years ago were found in Hungary, and therefore 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”. Data picture
“Discover” giant panda
“National treasure” giant panda is famous in the animal world. Not only in China, but throughout the world, Komiks is, 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. After the Opium War, China’s doors opened and Western missionaries 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 that it was hanging on the wall.A black and white animal skin. 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” for a short time. 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, but there were other names at that time, 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 “Hundred Beasts”, the “Emei Mountain Records” calls it “Pi Xiu”, the “Beasts Classic” calls it “Horse”, and the “Compendium of Materia Medica” calls it “Tapir”…
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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. The article mentions “tapir”, which is the name for pandas at that time.
The mandible bone of giant panda unearthed from Nanling of the Western Han Dynasty Data picture
When David discovered giant pandas, he only knew the popular name of the locals, but did not know the literary name. In David introduced to the Western world href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksShao Giant Panda 70 years later, in 1939, Chongqing held an animal specimens exhibition. The signs were in international writing format, with Chinese and Latin written in left and right. However, the Chinese were still reading from right to left at that time, 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
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According to David’s recommendation, giant pandas, which are strange-looking, docile-like and mysterious, are crazy about Westerners. Many zoos, museums and researchers dream of getting giant pandas.
Curiosity and interests are always the strongest driving force. For a long time, Western explorers were keen on seizing into mountainous areas in mainland China to hunt giant pandas. Their target was the living bear cat, but the specimens were also purchased and shipped 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, and made a specimen and transported it back to the United States.
From the following years, many Western national museums had panda specimens. But he never successfully transported a living giant panda.
Westerns have always wanted to get living giant pandas. Data picture
This situation was not broken until 1936. Ruth, a 5-year-old New York female designer, was newly married at that time. Her husband William was an avid explorer. Two weeks after getting married, William embarked on the road to China to find giant pandas, 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.
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 went 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. KomiksFor 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 of herbivorous animalsBabaylan and the huge cecum, 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 really not easy to survive until todayCinema!
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 nutrition under extensive absorption.
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 all day, and almost sleep half of the day!
It can fall asleep while sitting like this. Data picture
Of course, after all, in the “carnivorous mind”, there is still a side of its nature that wants to eat meat. Bamboo rat is one of its delicacies. Although the giant panda is slow to move, it has a way to catch bamboo rats. It finds the mouse hole based on its smell, blows vigorously, and slaps the ground with its front paws. When the bamboo rat is frightened and flees, it pouncesCinema Go up 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 occasionally. It seems that it is not cost-effective to spend so much effort. If you want to fill your stomach, you have to rely on bamboos that 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 there were bears in the late Miocene period of 8 million years ago in the late Miocene period.https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks cats live in Lufeng and Yuanmou areas, Yunnan. It has been the time of the saber-toothed elephant Komiks to this day!
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!
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 its star treatment? It should be said that the key lies in its own charm!
The charm of giant pandas lies in its appearance.
CheerKomiks‘s beepy body, round face, dense and soft fur, and black and white color matching. 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. Other parts with clear boundaries are all white. This accurate color matching 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 zodiac characters, shaking and cute. Its temperament is always low-key and gentle. It is not only aggressive in the estrus and nurturing periods, but generally keeps his eyes silent, only cares about eating and sleeping, and rarely provokes others.
Giant pandaCinema spends half of the time sleeping. 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. Such a “gentle” nature is really rare!
Although they are obese, they have the ability to climb trees easily. Data picture
Their sleeping positions are even more cute, lying flat, lying on their side, prone, stretching, or curling up, and you can fall asleep in any position. 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.
CinemaWild giant pandas sometimes go down to the valley, enter the village human residence, use round utensils such as buckets as toys, and 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 strata 8 million years ago in Lufeng Basin and Yuanmou Basin in Yunnan, China. This discovery strongly countered the claims of Western scholars, proving that giant pandas are authentic Chinese species.
So, there was no dispute over the origin of giant pandas for a long time.
Ancient panda bone fossils discovered in Yunnan Data map
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 paleobiological 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.
Cinema 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 the ancestors of the giant panda originated in Europe and later migrated 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 continue.
Of course, academic cognition will change, and perhaps new evidence will be released tomorrow, and the conclusions will change. We can also assume that Asia in ancient timesBabaylans://comicmov.com/”>Komiks, in Europe or more places, but later the others were extinct, and 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 Chinese “specialty”. This Cinema is glory and responsibility. The increasingly powerful ChinaBabaylanBabaylan must protect this national treasure-level “living fossil”, protect this lovely elf that is envied by foreigners, and let it stay in this beautiful planet in harmony with mankind forever!
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