Recently, the Director of the Natural Ecological Protection Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment introduced that since the wild population of giant pandas reached 1,864, it was decided to reduce their threat level from endangered to vulnerable. This is really good news. The number of giant pandas has increased, and the desire to own one has taken another big step.
As for whether it will shake the status of the national treasure, don’t think about it. National treasures are not determined by quantity alone, otherwise it would not be the turn of giant pandas to be national treasures. Not to mention the others, the giant pandas, which once had only 7 red-crowned cranes, are not comparable to those with a small number. Although they are now eating and drinking everywhere and making a great fortune, the giant panda's path to national treasure was also breezeed by their ancestors.
The National Treasure Road of Giant Panda
Giant Panda is a unique breed in my country. It has survived on the earth for at least 8 million years and can be called a living fossil in the animal world. my country has recorded giant pandas since ancient times, but at that time they debuted as beasts and divine beasts. For example, they are called Pi in " Books and Classics ", and Bai Ju in " Mao Shi ", or are some people calling them Pi Xiu . This is a ferocious auspicious beast, which has the effects of suppressing houses and warding off evil spirits, and is even used to describe a brave army. It is said that this is what I rode at that time.
Of course, species are evolving and times are changing. In recent decades, they have begun to debut as cute beasts. But this cute beast path is not easy to walk at all, and this matter will start from the Republic of China era. There were still quite a lot of giant pandas at that time.
precisely because of the large number, in March 1869, French naturalist Armand David found a black and white giant panda skin at a villager's home. He was very excited, so he spent money to find 20 local hunters to catch a giant panda.
This shows that the giant panda was still in the prey in the hearts of the Chinese people at that time. Unfortunately, the captured giant panda died in the end, so the French priest made it into a specimen and brought it back to Paris for display. From then on, giant pandas officially embarked on the road to becoming famous in the world.
Bloody beginning
It is said that people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong. Sometimes being liked by others is not a good thing, especially when you don’t have the ability to protect yourself. Although the giant panda has strong combat power and its biting power is comparable to that of a brown bear, in the mountains at an altitude of 2,000 meters, the running speed can exceed the maximum speed of Liu Xiang on the ground, and it is not difficult for a bear to beat several wolves. After all, they are bears, not cats, pandas, and they were originally called pandas, but because they used to pronounce the words from right to left, they were mistakenly called pandas.
But no matter how high the martial arts are, you can knock it down with one shot. Faced with various human weapons, their primitive combat power is really not enough. And the one who targets them is the humans at the top of the food chain. Since the giant panda specimens on display have attracted a lot of attention from abroad, many Western explorers have come to China to hunt them.
In the 1920s, the field museum in Chicago invested in hiring Roosevelt President's son Theodore and Kmitt, Kermit, helped them hunt panda specimens from China. After many searches, Theodore and Kmitt discovered a giant panda and shot it and killed the giant panda. Finally, the giant panda was made into a specimen at the Field Museum and attracted a large number of people to watch.
colleagues are enemies, and the success of the Field Museum has made other museums ready to move. The Natural Science Museum in Philadelphia sent a panda hunting team in 1931, killing a resting panda cub and purchasing several pandas from local hunters, then sending them back to Philadelphia with the skinned panda cubs.
Then in 1934, the American Museum of Natural History, sponsored the Sage West Expedition. They successfully hunted an adult giant panda, used panda meat as food for banquets, and wrote the hunting process into an article published in the journal Natural Science. The smarter people disdain this kind of fanfare hunting. David Crockett Graham, a missionary in Sichuan, quietly provided the museum with specimens of more than 20 pandas in just five years.
poaching of living pandas
As the popularity of pandas becomes increasingly fierce, foreign countries are no longer satisfied with specimens, they are eager to have a living giant panda. In 1936, Ruth Hackness captured the first living giant panda baby and named it "Sulin". After bribing customs, he brought the giant panda baby back to the United States with a "dog, $20" license and was enthusiastically sought after. In the end, the giant panda was sold to Brookfield Zoo . Unfortunately, Su Lin only lived for one year and was made into a specimen for permanent display.
, which obtained benefits, , Ruth , once again returned to China, and captured a baby panda again in 1938 and named it Meimei. Also in 1938, Flod Tangier Smith, who was sent from the Field Museum, had captured six giant pandas. Finally, three were sent to London Zoo , one was sold to a German businessman, the other died on the way, and the oldest also died after arriving in London.
According to statistics, between 1936 and 1946, more than 16 living giant pandas were transported from China, and there were more than 70 panda specimens. It is precisely because of such a large number of similar people who died of life that the honest and cute image of giant pandas was officially displayed in front of countries around the world, laying a solid public foundation for its national treasure road.
This poaching situation did not gradually decrease until the founding of the People's Republic of China. With the strengthening of our country's national strength and the protection of giant pandas, countries no longer can easily obtain giant pandas as before, so they can only change their methods and switch to gifts and rent them. This is also the beginning of the name of the national treasure of pandas.
The name of the national treasure of the panda
In 1972, Nixon visited China, and China gave a pair of giant pandas to the United States, called " Lingling " and "Xingxing". At that time, wildlife officials of the Ministry of Forestry used the claim of national treasures for the first time, and when they arrived in the United States, they were treated like a head of state visiting the United States.
Also in 1972, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka visited China, and our country gave away two giant pandas, "Kangkang" and "Lanlan". It was strongly welcomed by the Japanese people at that time. From then on, giant pandas became diplomatic experts and truly became one of China's symbols, opening up the era of pandas changing to aircraft carrier , and the name of national treasure came from this.
How long does it take for a giant panda to be held by people
so their status as a national treasure is not so shaken. Moreover, walnuts think that the number is still too small now, only 1,864. When will everyone realize their wish to have a giant panda? However, this may have to wait until the descendants of Walnuts burn paper to tell Walnuts, after all, giant pandas are too incompetent.
Wild giant pandas can live on average for 18 years, while those who are kept in captivity can live until about 30 years, which usually takes four or five years or even longer to mature sexually. Moreover, female giant pandas only have estrus once a year, and the estrus period is only 2-3 days. The key is that they are still active alone, and they will only look for each other when they are in heat. But the number of wild giant pandas is so rare that it is not enough to find a partner in just a few days of estrus. The worst thing is that I just found it and the estrus period has passed. I'm sorry, it's going to be next year.
Some male giant pandas are very Buddhist and have a low desire to mating. In order to enable them to mating, many zoos even play panda mating videos to stimulate them. Even so, people may not respond. You can imagine how Buddhist they are. And even if you have children, there are not many children.
Giant pandas will give birth to 1 to 2 cubs each time, and only one can survive in the wild. Think about it, there are only more than 1,800, even if there are more than 900, there are only more than 1,000 panda babies every year. It takes four or five years or even longer to have children. In addition, those who die prematurely, those who die unexpectedly, those who cannot find a partner or do not want to find a partner.
at this speed, everyone has one, 1.4 billion, I guess there is no hope in this life. I can only leave this thought to my descendants, or I can try whether the silly girl will be developed in 2060, so that giant pandas should be able to enter thousands of households.
Is it easy to raise a giant panda
But even if it can be raised, most people can't afford it. Don't look at it being lazy all day long, they have many things to do. First of all, they are big foodies. They spend two-thirds of their time eating every day, and they prefer to eat bamboo . Under normal circumstances, an adult giant panda weighing 100 kg can eat 10 to 18 kg of bamboo every day. There is no bamboo forest at home that really can't support it.
As the saying goes, eating more, pulling more naturally. The digestive system of giant pandas is relatively simple. They do not have a complex stomach and huge cecum that is specifically used to store food. Moreover, the stomach and intestines do not ferment plant cellulose into symbiotic bacteria or ciliate that can absorb nutrients.
So for pandas, bamboo is very difficult to digest and absorb, which is why they must keep eating. It’s difficult to digest and I eat too much, so in order to continue eating, of course I have to pull it out. It is said that they have to defecate 40 times a day, and discharge more than 10 kilograms of feces, which is very difficult to clean. Therefore, raising pandas is still very energy-consuming, and most people really don’t have the time and energy to raise them.
No matter what, it is a great thing for giant pandas to fall from endangered to vulnerable. We don’t have to worry that one day it will become extinct for no reason. Moreover, the increase in the number of wild giant pandas also means that my country's ecological environment has been greatly improved. In the future, more and more endangered animals will become vulnerable and not dangerous, and may even be removed from the list of endangered animals.
