How did the giant panda come from?

The panda names in Beijing Zoo are Dida, Ginny, Goo Goo, Mengda, mengle, Menglan, Diandian, Fuxing, Mengbao and Yu Meng.

Giant pandas have lived on the earth for at least 8 million years and are known as "living fossils" and "national treasures of China". It is the image ambassador of WWF and the flagship species of global biodiversity conservation.

Giant pandas eat meat at first. After evolution, 99% of their food is bamboo, but their teeth and digestive tract remain intact and they are still classified as carnivores. When they are angry, they are as dangerous as other bear species. The life span of giant pandas in the wild is 18-20 years old, and they can be over 30 years old in captivity.

Historical background:

The ancestors of giant pandas are native pandas. The standard Chinese name of the giant panda is actually "panda", which means "bear like a cat". This is the earliest panda, which is mainly carnivorous and evolved from a bear-like animal.

The main branches of Eocene pandas continued to evolve in central and southern China. One of them appeared in the early Pleistocene about 3 million years ago and was smaller than a panda. Judging from its teeth, it has evolved into an omnivore and an egg-laying bear that eats bamboo.

The giant panda reached its peak in the middle and late Pleistocene 500,000-700,000 years ago. Giant pandas in life have well-developed molars, and their claws have a "thumb" in addition to five toes. This "thumb" is actually a specialized formation of a wrist bone, scientifically called "radial sesamoid bone", which mainly plays the role of holding bamboo.