According to expert analysis, in scientific classification,
giant panda belongs to the order carnivore and mammals.
The reason why giant pandas can successfully transform from carnivore to vegetarian animals is the ciliate in their body. Cilia officinalis are unique to herbivores and are generally found in the digestive tract of herbivores. The total amount of biological organisms accounts for about 50% of the total amount of microorganisms in the entire digestive tract and plays an important role in the digestion and utilization of plant foods.
However, the reason why giant pandas have poor reproductive ability and exercise ability is also because of eating bamboo. Scientific research has found that only a small proportion of bamboo that pandas eat every day can be digested in the end, so you see giant pandas always eat and pull it constantly every day.
Although giant pandas prefer bamboo shoots, giant pandas living in the wild occasionally eat other plants, such as Wumeng wheat, corn, trefoil , green grass, porous mushrooms (xùn), wild angelica , champignon , champignon , trefoil bark, etc. Even abnormal, they pick up animals' corpses or catch smaller animals to feed, and
giant pandas love to eat meat, especially mutton.
giant pandas are omnivorous animals that are mainly vegetarian. However, there are 8 species of existing animals under the entire Bear family. Only giant pandas have almost become the staple food. Why is this?
Under the existing family Bear family, there are 3 subfamilies, 5 genera, and 8 different animals. These three subfamilies are subfamilies , giant panda subfamilies and glasses subfamilies.
Among them, there is only one genus under the giant panda subfamily and the glasses bear subfamily: giant panda and glasses bear . According to scientists' gene comparison of glasses bear and giant panda, these two animals are the two species with the closest kinship existing. The remaining bear subfamilies are one of the most species under the family Bear family, including the genus Bear, Lazy Bear , and Malay Bear. Under these three numbers, there is only one species under the genus Lazy Bear and Malay Bear : Lazy Bear and Malay Bear. There are 4 species under the genus Bear: brown bear, American Black Bear , Asian Black Bear and Polar Bear . These 8 animals together constitute the current family Bear family.
Among these 8 bears, polar bears are the largest in size and the highest proportion of carnivorous food. The proportion of carnivorous food reaches 98.5%. The remaining 1.5% is not grass, but seaweed that is washed ashore with the waves. This is the main source of vitamins and minerals for polar bears.
is followed by brown bears. Brown bears are the species with the most subspecies under the bear family. It has as many as 20 subspecies, and the largest subspecies, the Kodiak brown bear, has a size comparable to that of polar bears. Although the distribution and body size of brown bears vary greatly, their diets are basically similar. They are both omnivorous animals mainly based on plant-based foods. Among them, plant-based food accounts for more than 60%, and the remaining 40% are carnivorous, which constitutes fish, insects, rodents and ungulates.
Except for the proportion of carnivorous food of polar bears and brown bears, the other bears are far behind. The proportion of plant-based food of black bears in Asia and America is as high as 95%, and carnivorous food accounts for only about 5%. Although glasses bears are the largest carnivorous animals in the Americas, their plant-based food accounts for between 93-95%, and carnivorous food accounts for only 3-5%. It is worth mentioning that glasses bears prefer fruits of bromeliad plants, accounting for more than 50%. Malay bears are the smallest bear family. The proportion of carnivore in their recipes is higher, reaching about 90%. However, these carnivores refer to insects. Malay bears feed on more than 100 kinds of insects. It is precisely because of this that its tongue is very slender and is more conducive to licking insects. Lazy bears have similar diets to Malay bears. In the season when fruits are ripe, the proportion of meat and vegetarian food is 1:1. However, most of the meat are also insects. Moreover, lazy bears have a special liking for ant and bees. In other seasons, lazy bears mainly feed on insects.
Finally, it is giant pandas. Bamboo accounts for 99% of the giant panda recipes, and the remaining 1% are mainly small animals such as mice.After reading these 8 types of bear recipes, we will find that the proportion of giant panda vegetarian food is not outrageous, because there are many types of bears that account for more than 90%. However, there are almost no bears like giant pandas that mainly feed on bamboo because bears with a high proportion of vegetarianism have a wide variety of plants they eat.
Why do giant pandas mainly feed on bamboo?
It is not an accident, but inevitable, why do you say so?
Through our analysis of the diet of bear families, we can find that the proportion of plant-based foods in most bear families is very high, which means that vegetarian food is the norm for bears. Bamboo is also a type of plant, so eating bamboo is actually the same as other bears eating plants.
. The giant pandas live in the bamboo forests with almost no large herbivores. Hunting other small rodents consumes more than the energy provided by their prey, so they choose static and large amounts of low-nutrition and crude fiber bamboo.
Bears all eat meat. "It is a biased understanding of bears. Although bears all eat meat, most bears are actually plants. After understanding this problem, we will be no exception to giant pandas eating plants. Compared with other bears, it has a certain degree of narrow-eating nature because of the environment and evolutionary direction it is in. However, judging by the fact that giant pandas have lived for more than 8 million years, their evolution is successful.
