Text/Ming Youhe
Tigers and lions dare not attack giant pandas? The names given by the ancients to pandas, you may not believe them when you say them
The panda is our national treasure of China, it has always been a soft and cute image in our eyes, it loves to eat bamboo, and it does not have the slightest aggression against humans. But, you know what? Pandas are actually carnivores, and they are beasts of prey that even tigers and lions dare not attack easily.
Pandas are cat-like carnivores that bears evolved. So far, the earliest panda fossils found in China are in Yunnan, and it is speculated that the fossils existed about 8 million years ago.
There are many species of beasts of prey at the same time as pandas, but most of them are extinct, only pandas, although endangered, but still exist in this world, in the law of nature is not eliminated by the nature of the strong, in this way, pandas are not soft and small animals, but have strong vitality and strong aggressive beasts.
The ancient people's understanding of pandas is much clearer than that of modern people. In many ancient books, the panda is called 貔 or 罴, and the records describe it as shaped like a buffalo, with huge horns, black fur, living by eating iron, and its excrement is sharp as steel, which can be used as a weapon. It belongs to the ancient beasts.
In folklore, pandas are also known as iron-eating beasts. Some scholars believe that the reason why it has such a name is likely to be related to the fact that it used to go to the homes of residents to forage for food.
Panda eats iron, often chooses cooking utensils as food, biting iron products can see how sharp its teeth are and how strong its bite force is. However, some people believe that the panda actually wants to eat salt, and in the absence of salt, it often breaks into the villagers' homes and licks the salt left in the villagers' iron pots, and its action also makes people mistakenly think that it is going to eat iron.
In addition, because the panda belongs to the bear class, it should actually be called a cat bear. The name Cat Bear was given in 1940.
Pandas used to be aggressive beasts, but in the development of the times, they have gradually become endangered animals. Now, there are fewer than 1,600 wild giant pandas in the world, and because of its scarcity, it is also listed as a national first-class protected animal. Moreover, it is now a national treasure of China, and the problem of reducing the number of pandas has been alleviated under the care of professionals.
Now, the giant pandas we see no longer have the appearance of a little beast, they are well-behaved and cute, and they mainly eat bamboo. This is also because of their own evolution, in order to survive from meat evolution to "herbivorous", and now, in order to survive, they have learned to sell cuteness and spoil.
However, although the panda has evolved to eat bamboo, its teeth and digestive organs are still the same, that is, the panda can still eat meat, and it is still classified as a carnivorous order. When angry, it is still aggressive as a beast, and its danger index is no less than that of other bears.
Therefore, everything can not only look at the surface. Cute pandas can also become ferocious bears. In order to survive in nature, no matter how animals learn to disguise, even human beings who claim to be the masters of nature must learn to disguise themselves. To be like a giant panda, you can both pretend to be obedient and tear other beasts at any time.