The giant panda has not been downgraded to Level 2.
The giant panda has not been downgraded to a second-level national protected animal, but under my country's vigorous protection, the number of giant pandas is increasing year by year. The giant panda belongs to the order Carnivora, family Ursidae, subfamily Giant Panda, and is the only mammal in the genus Giant Panda.
Giant pandas are plump and plump like bears, with a round head and short tail. The head and body are 1.2 to 1.8 meters long, and the tail is 10 to 12 centimeters long. Weighing 80 to 120 kilograms, the heaviest can reach 180 kilograms. The pandas raised are slightly heavier, and generally the males are slightly larger than the females. The hair color of the head and body is distinctly black and white, but the black is not pure black, and the white is not pure white, but black with brown and white with yellow.
The modern name of the giant panda (that is, the name commonly used in China) was originally called Cat Bear or Big Panda Bear, which means that its face is round and fat like a cat, but its overall body shape is like a bear, and some It even belongs to the Ursidae family.
Because before the 1950s, Chinese was written in straight script and read from right to left, but after it was changed to horizontal script, it was from left to right. When it was exhibited in Beibei Museum, Sichuan in 1939 At that time, the title was written in horizontal script, and it was named Cat Panda. However, at that time, visitors were accustomed to reading straight script from right to left, and mistakenly thought it was a panda.
Introduction to the habits of giant pandas:
Excluding eating time every day, giant pandas spend most of the rest of their time sleeping. When sleeping, they like to lie flat, on their sides, prone, stretch or curl up into a ball. Sleeping style. Giant pandas walk in a standard pigeon-toed way, are good at climbing trees, and love to play. Under normal circumstances, giant pandas have a docile temperament and rarely attack other animals or people. They will avoid them when encountering them in the wild.
Giant pandas are very flexible and can put their bulky bodies into various positions. His favorite thing is to put his legs up on a tree and cover his eyes with his hands. Tree-climbing behavior is generally a way for the weak to avoid the strong when the marriage proposal is approaching, to avoid danger, or when they meet each other.
Giant pandas have a long history. The fossils of the oldest member of the giant panda discovered so far, EoPanda, were unearthed in Lufeng and Yuanmou, Yunnan, China, with a geological age of about 8 million years ago in the late Miocene. In the long-term and severe competition for survival and natural selection, many animals of their generation have become extinct. However, the giant panda is a strong one and has an advantage. It has survived to this day and has become a "living fossil."