Panda's aliases are panda, bamboo bear, silver dog, Dongga, Du Dongga, carrying alien, raccoon, fierce leopard and iron-eating beast.
A mammal belonging to Carnivora, Xiong Ke and Giant Panda, with black and white body color, round cheeks, big dark circles, chubby body, symbolic walking posture, eight characters inside and claws as sharp as scalpels, is one of the most lovely animals in the world. 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.
According to the third national wild panda population survey, there are less than 1600 wild pandas in the world, which belong to the national first-class protected animals. By the end of 2011/the number of giant pandas in captivity in China was 333. At first, giant pandas ate meat. After evolution, 99% of the food is bamboo, but the teeth and digestive tract remain unchanged and are still classified as carnivores.
Species of pandas
1, giant panda Qinling subspecies: Qinling is the region with the highest latitude distribution of giant pandas in China, and its population density ranks first in the country. The giant panda in Qinling Mountains is an important population of giant pandas, which has a unique distribution pattern and population evolution history. There are obvious differences in morphology and molecular biology between giant pandas in Qinling Mountains and those in Sichuan and Gansu. It is an independent subspecies of giant panda, named giant panda Qinling subspecies.
2. White Giant Panda: A mutant species, which is rare in the world of white giant pandas. Their discovery broke the saying of "strangeness" in the history of panda research and has important scientific significance.
3. Brown Giant Panda: Brown Giant Panda is a rare individual among giant panda species. As of 2009, only five brown giant pandas have been found in the world since scientific records, all of which are distributed in the core area of Qinling Mountain in Shaanxi Province, one of the important habitats of giant pandas.