The four cute pandas have their own names, namely: Qin Yun, Qin Xiu, Qin Mei, Qin Hua, which means the ancestral lineage of China, the beautiful Qinling Mountains, Zhongnan Yuxiu, and the cute national treasures rhyme. ?
Previously, when naming these four pandas, we also collected names from the public. Many netizens sent emails, and finally we chose these 4 names among tens of thousands of panda names, because these 4 names were chosen. a name. It embodies both the Qinling Mountains and the traditional culture of the Chinese nation. The recent video of these four pandas wishing everyone a happy New Year has attracted the attention and love of many netizens on the Internet. Netizens exclaimed that the way these four pandas work hard to do business is really cute and melts our hearts. Giant pandas have always given people a naive feeling, clumsy yet cute. As a national treasure, giant pandas are treated better than humans. They are fed by dedicated people, allocated by the state, and given special housing. Netizens are saying that after seeing the life of a giant panda, I feel so sad that my own life is not as good as that of a giant panda. This year’s netizens are also very cute.
There are giant pandas in Sichuan, and there are also giant pandas in the Qinling Mountains.
However, Sichuan giant pandas and Qinling giant pandas are not the same.
Pandas in the two places are of the same ancestry, but due to the obstruction of the Jialing River and the impact of human activities, they lost contact 50,000 years ago and were unable to "marriage", so they began the process of independent reproduction and evolution.
Professor Fang Shengguo from the School of Life Sciences of Zhejiang University, based on new animal taxonomy research results, divided giant pandas into Sichuan subspecies and Qinling subspecies, with the Qinling subspecies accounting for only 18.5%. It is more primitive than the giant pandas in the other five mountain systems. It has an independent evolutionary history, and its genetic differentiation and morphology have reached the level of subspecies differentiation. The population is smaller, the habitat is narrower, and the survival situation is more endangered.
As the saying goes, one place needs water and soil to support another person. The soil, climate, and vegetation in Sichuan are very different from those in the Qinling Mountains. Therefore, the appearance, color, and body shape of the giant pandas in the two places have gradually become different.
This difference may not be noticed by ordinary people, but experts can see it at a glance. ?Panda Professor? Bai Zhongde summarized this difference in his book "Giant Panda? My Qinling Neighbor":
The Sichuan subspecies has a big head and small teeth, a long head like a bear, and a deep chest Black, with a white belly, black hair tips on the lower belly, and white hair shafts;
The Qinling subspecies has a small head, big teeth, and a round head like a cat? This is not a cat we raise at home, but a red panda from the raccoon family, with a chest Dark brown, belly brown, lower abdominal hair shaft white, hair tips brown;
The Sichuan subspecies is the petite Lin Daiyu, up to 1.4 to 1.5 meters long;
The Qinling subspecies is plump and rich Xue Baochai can reach 1.7 meters.