Giant panda (scientific name: Ailuropoda melanoleuca, English name: grand Panda) belongs to Carnivora, a mammal of the giant panda family. Its body color is black and white. It has round cheeks, big dark circles, chubby body, symbolic walking posture, with eight characters in it and claws as sharp as scalpels. Is one of the cutest animals in the world. Giant pandas have lived on the earth for at least 8 million years and are known as "living fossils" and "national treasures of China". It is the image ambassador of WWF and the flagship species of global biodiversity conservation. According to the third national wild panda population survey, there are less than 1600 wild pandas in the world, which belong to the national first-class protected animals. By the end of 2011/the number of giant pandas in captivity in China was 333. At first, giant pandas ate meat. After evolution, 99% of the food is bamboo, but the teeth and digestive tract remain unchanged and are still classified as carnivores. The life span of giant pandas in the wild is 18 ~ 20 years old, and it can reach over 30 years old in captivity. Endemic to China, the main habitats are China Mountain, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.
Chinese name: giant panda
Latin scientific name: giant panda
Nicknames: panda, bamboo bear, silver dog, Dongga, Du Dongga, Zhiyi, raccoon, fierce leopard, iron eater.
Field: animal kingdom
Phylum: Chordata phylum
Subphylum: Vertebrate subphylum
Class: mammals
Objective: Carnivores.
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Subfamily: Giant Panda subfamily
Genus: Giant Panda
Species: Giant Panda
Subspecies: Nominal subspecies, Qinling subspecies
Named by and year: David, 1869
English name: giant panda
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Appearance characteristics
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Giant pandas are chubby, like bears, with round heads and short tails. The length of the head and trunk is 1200 ~ 1800 mm, and the length of the tail is 100 ~ 120 mm. The weight is 80 ~ 120 kg, and the maximum weight can reach 180kg. Pandas are slightly heavier, and 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 Qinling area is 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 small.
The black-and-white appearance is conducive to hiding in dense forests and trees on the snow-covered ground, which is not easy to be found by natural enemies. Relatively sharp claws and powerful front and rear limbs are beneficial for giant pandas to climb tall trees quickly.
Giant panda's skin is thick, the thickest part can reach 10 mm, and 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 lateral side is thicker than the medial side. The average skin thickness is about 5mm, white, elastic and tough.
The giant panda's eyesight is extremely underdeveloped. This is because the giant panda lives 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 split longitudinally like cats. Therefore, when night falls, they can still act.