Video丨 Wild panda reappears in Deyang, photographing "marking behavior" for the first time

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Chuanguan News reporter Yu Rubo

Chuanguan News reporter learned from the Deyang Management Branch of the Giant Panda National Park on December 2 that recently, when the patrol staff of the Deyang Park of the Giant Panda National Park were sorting out the infrared camera data, they found a sub-adult giant panda doing perianal gland markers on the tree. This is the first time that giant pandas have been photographed for marking since the pilot of the Deyang Giant Panda National Park system, and it is also the first appearance of the giant panda population in Jiuding Mountain in Deyang after the official establishment of the Giant Panda National Park on October 12.

It is reported that since the pilot of the system, in order to strengthen the monitoring of giant pandas and their species in the same domain, 233 infrared cameras have been installed in the Deyang Park of the Giant Panda National Park, and a group of giant pandas in the Deyang Park have punched in every year.

A frontal photo of a wild giant panda taken earlier

The first giant panda photographed in 2019 seems to be ashamed to see people and only captures the back; in 2020, the giant panda comes from the bamboo forest with its head held high; earlier this year, the panda mother took the child to punch the clock together, but the little baby was a little naughty, and the "photo" did not cooperate. This time, the staff sorted out the infrared camera data and found that the giant panda came to Deyang again to punch the clock, and in the image, the giant panda was using the perianal glands for odor marking, indicating that this field was its.

According to the relevant staff, during the breeding season, animals generally use urine or a mixture of urine and perianal gland secretions to mark on trees, on the ground or where they pass, to attract the opposite sex to come and reproduce the next generation; in the non-breeding season, odor marks are used to indicate the identity of the owner, and other animals will leave the area when they smell it.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Deyang Management Branch of the Giant Panda National Park, the Deyang Park of the Giant Panda National Park is the "abdominal belt" of the giant panda habitat in the southern section of the Minshan Mountains, with a drop of up to 4,000 meters, poor accessibility, and little interference from human activities, with 11 species of wild animals under national level I key protection represented by giant pandas, 33 species of wild animals under national level II key protection, 4 species of national level I key protected plants, and 15 species of national level II key protected plants. According to the statistics of the Fourth National Giant Panda Survey, there are 35 giant pandas in the small population of Jiuding Mountain, of which 5 are giant pandas in Deyang Park.

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