What's the name of the panda?

Real name: panda

Scientific name: Raccootidae

Alias: Flower Cat, Flower Bear, Flower Bear, Bamboo Bear, Flower Head Bear, Silver Dog, Big Raccoon, Aqu, Du Dongga, Zhiyi, Zhen, Mengbao, Mengshi Beast, Iron Eating Beast, Giant Panda, White Bear, Black and White Cat. Dongga (as Tibetans call it), the panda is also called panda in Taiwan Province province.

English name: Panda

Spelling: dà xióng māo

French name: panda géant

Personality: docile, brave and naive.

Features: Fat as a bear, short head and round tail, and black and white fur on the head and body.

chordata

A subclass of vertebrates.

mammal

Carnivore, carnivore

Canidae, a suborder Canidae.

Xiong Ke, Xiong Ke

Giant panda subfamily

panda

The giant panda is a lively animal with a unique black and white coat color. Its Latin name: Ailuropoda melanoleuca refers to its black and white appearance. The species and genus of giant pandas have been debated for a century. The recent DNA analysis shows that it is an internationally accepted classification method of Xiong Ke and Giant Panda subfamily, and it is gradually recognized in China. The traditional classification of giant pandas in China lists them as giant pandas. It represents an early branch of Xiong Ke. Adult giant pandas are about 120~ 190 cm long and weigh 85 ~ 125 kg. Unique features include: large and flat molars, one of which has developed into a "fake thumb", all of which are to adapt to the life of eating bamboo. Unlike the other six kinds of bears, neither the giant panda nor the sun bear hibernates. The ancestor of giant panda is Ailuaractos lufengensis, which is the earliest carnivorous panda evolved from bear-like species. At first, the main branch of the panda 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 the panda today. Judging from its teeth, it has evolved into an omnivore that eats bamboo. Since then, this main branch has spread to the subtropics, with a wide distribution, and fossils have been found in North China, Northwest China, East China, Southwest China, South China and even Vietnam and North Myanmar. In this process, the giant panda adapted to the subtropical bamboo forest life.

Gradually getting bigger and living on bamboo. The giant panda reached its peak in the middle and late Pleistocene 500,000-700,000 years ago. Nowadays, the molars of giant pandas are well developed, 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. The giant panda in Qinling Mountains has been identified as a subspecies of giant panda.

Giant pandas are fat and bear-like, but their heads are round and their tails are short. The hair color of the head and body is mostly black and white, that is, the snout, eyes (arranged in a figure of eight), ears, limbs and shoulder blades (connected across the shoulders to form an annular belt) are black, and the rest are white. The abdomen is light brown or grayish black. Its body length is 120 ~ 180 cm; Tail length 10~20cm, white; The shoulder height is generally 65 ~ 70cm；; Weight 60~ 125kg. In addition to five claws, the front foot has a sixth toe. Thick hair on the back and long capillaries in the abdomen.

Except in estrus, I often live a solitary life and walk day and night. The nesting area is 3.9~6.4 square kilometers, and individuals overlap. The nesting area of males is slightly larger than that of females. Females only live in nests of 30~40 hectares most of the time, and the nests between females do not overlap. The food is mainly 50 kinds of bamboo in alpine and subalpine mountains, and I occasionally eat other plants and even animal carcasses. I eat a lot every day. I drink water from springs or streams every day.

Giant pandas inhabit the high mountains and deep valleys in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, which is the windward side of the southeast monsoon. The climate is warm, cool and humid, and the humidity is often above 80%, so they are wet-loving animals. Their active areas are mostly in ravines, mountainside depressions, river valley terraces and so on. , generally in the gentle slope terrain below 20. These places have fertile soil, lush trees and good bamboo growth, forming an excellent food base, relatively stable temperature, good hidden conditions and abundant food and water resources. Living in the alpine bamboo forest at an altitude of 2400~3500 meters. Its living environment is very humid, and the temperature difference is relatively large.

The giant panda's diet is very special, including almost all kinds of bamboo that can be found in the mountains. Giant pandas occasionally eat meat (usually animal carcasses and sometimes bamboo rats). The unique food characteristics of giant pandas make them known as "bamboo bears" by locals. Bamboo lacks nutrition and can only provide basic nutrition for survival. The giant panda gradually evolved the characteristics of adapting to this diet. In the wild, pandas eat for as long as 14 hours every day except sleeping or short-distance activities. A giant panda eats 12 ~ 38kg of food every day, which is close to 40% of its weight. Giant pandas like to eat the most nutritious and least cellulose-containing parts of bamboo, namely tender stems, buds and bamboo shoots. Giant pandas usually have at least two kinds of bamboos in their habitats. When one kind of bamboo blooms and dies (bamboo blooms and dies periodically every 30~ 120 years), giant pandas can switch to other bamboos. The continuous fragmentation of habitats increases the possibility that there is only one kind of bamboo in habitats. When this kind of bamboo dies, the giant pandas in this area will face the threat of starvation.