Giant panda (scientific name: Ailuropoda melanoleuca, English name: Giant Panda), a mammal of Carnivora, is black and white in color. It has round cheeks, big dark circles, chubby body, iconic walking style with eight characters inside, and claws as sharp as scalpels. Is one of the cutest animals in the world. The giant panda has lived on the earth for at least 8 million years, and is known as the "living fossil" and the "national treasure of China". It is the image ambassador of the World Wide Fund for Nature and the flagship species of biodiversity protection in the world. According to the third national wild population survey of giant pandas, there are less than 1,6 wild giant pandas in the world, which belong to the first-class protected animals in China. By October 211, the number of giant pandas in captivity in China was 333. At first, giant pandas ate meat. After evolution, 99% of the food was bamboo, but the teeth and digestive tract remained the same and were still classified as carnivores. The life span of giant pandas in the wild is 18 to 2 years old, and they can be over 3 years old in captivity. It is endemic to China, and its main existing habitats are mountainous areas in China, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu.
Chinese scientific name: Giant Panda
Latin scientific name: Ailuropoda Melanoleca
Other names: panda, bamboo bear, silver dog, cave ga, Du cave ga, Zhiyi, raccoon, fierce leopard, Iron eater
kingdom: animal kingdom
phylum: Chordata
subphylum: Vertebrate subphylum
class: Mammalia
order: Carnivora
family: Xiong Ke
subfamily: Giant Panda
Genus: Giant Panda
Species: 1869
English name: Giant Panda
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Appearance characteristics
Sprouting state
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Giant pandas are fat and bear-like, with a short round head and tail, with a length of 12～18mm and a length of 1-12 mm. The weight is 8 ~ 12 kg, and the maximum weight can reach 18kg. The pandas raised are slightly heavier, and the males are generally slightly larger than females. The head and body are black and white, but black is not pure black, and white is not pure white, but brown in black and yellow in white. The individuals in Qinling area are large, with rough body hair and slightly brown belly hair. Minshan (especially Qingchuan Pingwu) is smaller, with thinner body hair and less brown belly hair, but Liangshan is not smaller.
The black-and-white appearance is conducive to hiding in dense forest trees and snow-covered ground and not being easily discovered by natural enemies. Relatively sharp claws and powerful front and rear limbs are beneficial for giant pandas to climb tall trees quickly.
The skin of giant pandas is thick, and the thickest part can reach 1mm. The skin thickness of different parts of the body is also different. The back of the body is thicker than the ventral side, and the outer side is thicker than the inner side. The average thickness of the skin is about 5mm, and it is white and elastic and tough.
The giant panda's vision is extremely underdeveloped. This is because the giant panda has lived in a dense bamboo forest for a long time, and the light is very dark and there are many obstacles, which makes its vision very short-sighted. In addition, because its pupils are longitudinally split like cats. Therefore, when the night falls, they can still move.