Yaya is going home.
Latest news: Yaya will return to China on April 7 as agreed, and the Beijing Zoo District is fully prepared to welcome Yaya.
Yaya, a giant panda traveling in the United States.
Since last month, it has been pulling hot searches every day.
The reason is a controversial video:
The zoo's malign girls are skinny, struggling to nibble on bare and hard bamboo poles and begging visitors behind a glass curtain wall.
There is no longer the round appearance of the panda in our impression.
Even more unfortunate is Yaya's companion Lele.
In early February, he died at the Memphis Zoo, Tennessee, for unknown reasons, at the age of 25.
After Lele left, only Yaya was left in the empty park.
The panda venues in the United States are in poor condition, the bamboo is not fresh enough, and the disease is not treated in time... In the face of increasing controversy.
Mistreat?
Even if the relevant departments come forward to explain:
Yaya and Lele were not abused by the museum, Lele's cause of death was a heart attack, and Yaya's health was normal except for hair loss caused by skin diseases.
Most people still don't buy it.
The cries calling for the return of the national treasure as soon as possible are getting louder.
Go home.
Unexpectedly, to this day, we are still worried about the national treasure panda floating overseas and dying alone.
Why say "yet"?
Sir introduced a Chinese-Japanese co-production animation "Panda Story", based on the real fate of pandas in the 30s of the last century.
The protagonist in the anime is named Taotao.
Its childhood was spent in the mountains and forests of Sichuan, playing freely every day.
But because of a gunshot from a poacher, my mother was killed and a specimen was made.
Taotao was sent to zoos in Europe where they were caged for viewing.
Taotao in Europe is getting older day by day, and the picture of hometown has entered its dream countless times.
Near Christmas, Mary, a kind breeder, asks Taotao what gift he wants.
With tears in his eyes, Taotao repeated his wish again:
I want to go back
Let me go back to the valley of Minshan in Sichuan
But who can really understand Taotao's heart.
At the end of the story, Taotao finally spread his legs freely, ran to the valley where he missed day and night, changed back to his childhood appearance, and returned to his mother's warm embrace.
But this is just another dream...
The children who watched this animation back then should have shed tears.
However, when I grew up, I even had to shed tears again for a similar story.
In the face of pandas floating across the ocean, we always harbor a mixed emotion.
The "marriage" of the panda.
Half of them bear the bond of great power diplomacy, and the other half also conceals the mixed tastes of "children's worries".
There are also different views on different positions.
But, it seems, everyone has forgotten.
Whether it's a national treasure, a "rolling", or a variety of AABB names.
- but all the labels given to it by latecomers.
What is a real panda like.
Has anyone cared about their world?
Seen in this way, the panda, which has stripped of all symbols, seems to have never been placed on the table.
Well today.
Sir wanted to talk about it.
Our most precious and strange friend.
01
It's not silly and sweet
Recall what was your impression of the panda?
Is it round and silly, except for sleeping is to eat.
Cute is the universal consensus of pandas around the world.
But what if Sir told you that the cute creature, who was ranked third on CNN's 2013 list of the world's cutest species, isn't actually what people think?
Most of the pandas you see have lived in breeding houses or zoos for a long time, accustomed to the presence of people.
In other words.
Cuteness, in fact, is a naïve misunderstanding.
And real pandas.
There's no denying that, in essence, it's still a beast.
Four or five adults couldn't pull the panda
Don't forget.
Panda, it's a bear.
As a large omnivore, pandas not only eat bamboo, they also eat meat.
Scalpel-sharp claws, huge size, and very strong jaw muscles hidden under the cute-looking face.
All these conditions laid the foundation for pandas to eat hard bamboo and hunt small animals.
Pandas not only use their teeth to fight with similar kinds, but also eat wild bamboo rats and even large sheep.
The documentary "Going Home" has such a bridge.
When pandas are inconvenient to forage for food on their own, they will go to farmers near the mountains to find food.
Do farmers chop bamboo for giant pandas?
No.
People just throw whole boiled bones.
Change flavors occasionally?
Naive.
The farmer also said that not only one panda came, but many pandas were exchanged.
Long life here.
The "buffet" behavior of pandas has become so frequent that even their own dogs are not strange.
So witty, it seems to be different from the "stupid cute" we see?
You know, although the panda looks cute and lovely.
But those who roll in the zoo, fall, fall from trees, these are all self-amusement when they are warm and worry-free.
A real wild giant panda.
If it is really ineffective, how can it survive millions of years safely and have the name of "living fossil"?
In the nature reserve, the face of the giant panda "high" who cannot eat bamboo by itself, let alone climb trees to sleep.
Sooner or later, keepers will release it back into the forest.
Seeing such a situation, only constantly sighing:
Go up Hurry up
You don't know until people eat you
Many people forget.
The preciousness of giant pandas lies in their scarcity.
In 2021, the State Council of the People's Republic of China issued a white paper entitled "Biodiversity Conservation in China", which stated that the number of giant pandas in the wild on the mainland was 1,864.
In the indisputable mountains and forests.
Giant pandas face more than just difficulties in estrus, low survival rates of cubs, and ecological destruction of habitats.
Other wildlife.
For example, predators such as golden cats, leopards, jackals, and wolves will also prey on cubs or sick and elderly pandas.
It takes at least 1-2 years for red pandas to survive independently from birth.
Any animal stronger than it during this period may end its life in an instant.
The documentary "The Legend of the Panda" once appeared such a picture.
The mother panda Jiaojiao has just given birth to her cub "Huzi".
When the mother goes out to find bamboo and gives herself plenty of milk to feed the child.
A weasel.
Appeared in front of the hole where the tiger slept.
Huzi, who is less than four months old, is a delicious meal.
An adult panda might be able to easily pinch a weasel to death.
But for the young, they have no resistance to natural predators.
In the face of the weasel, the only thing the tiger can do is to constantly curl himself up into a small transparent and imagine that the enemy cannot see it.
Even if we all know it, it's useless.
Fortunately, the researchers stood by.
Otherwise, the tiger will probably be like many young cubs who have died, and inexplicably will not see the sun tomorrow.
Every day before adulthood, almost all of the panda's life was spent in fear.
In the face of survival of the fittest, there has long been no squeamish and shiny label.
No matter how precious a national treasure is, all beings are equal in the mountains and forests.
02
Everything is both great and small
When Sir was searching for documentaries about pandas, he noticed a strange phenomenon.
That's other nature documentaries, which are thousands of hits.
But domestic panda documentaries, even if the score is quite high, there are few viewers.
Does this indicate a phenomenon?
When the inherent image of the panda has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, many creations inspired by the panda have also sprung up.
But for those pandas who remove stereotypes, we have little interest and little understanding.
You know, although the panda is a humane animal.
But pandas are not destined to be kept in captivity and watched.
Pandas have evolved over millions of years
Not to please humans in zoos
Panda grows in the wild
There through the storm and see the world
Pursue love there
This is truly a life
Wild pandas have their own life system and a complete world independent of human vision.
And these seem to be ignored by our mainstream view and lost.
In the documentary "The Legend of the Panda".
At the risk of offending authorities and protected areas, the researchers also had to observe the life of giant pandas up close.
They see.
Male pandas will fight during estrus and fight for courtship rights.
The winning side will sing love songs.
(Although it sounds like a broken gong)
And once the two pandas finish mating.
The male panda will follow the female panda and never leave an inch.
In order to make sure that no other male pandas will come.
Wait until the end of estrus.
After the mother panda gives birth, she will hold her cub and make a "cooing" sound in her mouth.
The red panda, which has not yet grown up, is very small, like a mouse.
But they also respond to the outside world.
The voice is loud, like a duck barking.
And when red pandas grow up, they will follow in their mother's footsteps and follow in the smell.
If it is a male cub.
Then when they reach adulthood.
The mother will abandon her son before the next estrus.
Not only to not be disturbed, but also to allow the child to start living independently earlier.
If it is a daughter, then the mother will take the child with her for a longer time.
When estrus comes.
Red pandas will even take the initiative to learn the courtship behavior of their mother rubbing her ass and leaving her breath in the tree.
The mother mates in front and she will observe in the back.
Its tolerance to female cubs
It seems to be a little more tolerant than for males
△ Cat film scene
That is it, from birth and growth to mating and reproduction.
The life of a panda repeats itself from generation to generation.
It looks monotonous, but it also contains their own rules of the game.
As Professor Pan Wenshi said.
Panda is a male-centered society.
To avoid inbreeding.
Growing up female pandas will go to the territory of other male pandas to complete mating.
Male pandas after adulthood will divide their spheres of influence, of which 3/4 will coincide with the mother's range of activities.
They will fight off all outsiders and assume the responsibility of one hegemon.
To some extent, this is strikingly similar to the human view of the family.
In 1980, research on wild giant pandas in Wolong and Qinling was carried out.
Scholars have spent several years or even more than a decade observing and recording the life trajectories of wild giant pandas on the mainland under extremely limited research conditions.
There is no water to drink, to boil;
No food, eat snakes.
Living in a farmer's house was brutally poisoned by gas, and when he saw a colleague die, he could only sigh.
That is, in such conditions.
Their most vocal voice is not complaining, not shouting tiredness.
Rather, it is the hope that humans can control themselves.
Don't hurt the panda again in the name of being good for the panda.
Because after going through too much, they know.
Compared with the natural elimination caused by fertility, competition for food, mate, and territory between pandas.
Behind-the-scenes disputes and unspoken rules of human society.
Perhaps it is the biggest culprit under the panda survival problem.
03
Go home, go back to your real home
According to statistics.
By the end of 2006, there were 217 giant pandas in captivity.
But scientists have calculated that 78% of female pandas are infertile and 90% of male pandas are sterile.
The lifespan of giant pandas is generally about 25 years.
Most of the pandas who went abroad earlier died of gastrointestinal and digestive system lesions and physiological disorders.
In 1999, the giant panda Xingxing suffered from kidney failure and his physical condition deteriorated sharply, and he was euthanized in the United States in the same year;
In 2007, the giant panda Yanyan died in Germany, the cause of death was gastrointestinal failure caused by blood poisoning, and eventually heart failure;
In 2019, the giant panda Chuangchuang died in Thailand, the cause of death was acute attack of chronic heart failure and lack of oxygen in the whole body.
……
In the documentary, Professor Pan also mentioned a point.
In the eighties, there was news that bamboo bloomed on a large scale, which led to a significant decline in the number of pandas.
At that time, a popular song was also born: "Mimi the Panda".
Bamboo blooms and feeds
Mimi lies in her mother's arms counting the stars
Stars, how beautiful the stars are
Where is breakfast tomorrow
At that time, everyone believed that bamboo blooming was an absolute threat to the panda population.
But after Professor Pan went deep into the mountains and forests to collect feces for analysis, he found out.
The blossoming of bamboo has led to the extinction of pandas, which is a "pseudo-theory".
The reason is that some people want to catch wild pandas and raise them and build large-scale captive farms.
Later, some people said that pandas do not self-breed because of their short estrus period.
It began to circulate in society again.
It is hoped that wild pandas can be artificially caught back to help breed.
And when a rare brown giant panda appears in the wild.
The final choice.
And because of its rarity, send it to the zoo.
Herein lies the paradox.
When the panda was established as a national treasure, society began to quarrel because of its destination.
Some for money, some for profit.
But in those days, scholars cared about only one thing.
That is what kind of consequences will occur after the normal life of the panda is artificially intervened.
They can't do anything else.
Only the results of their own research can be communicated to the relevant institutions to reduce the occurrence of similar incidents.
Scholars' concerns are justified.
In 1984, the state began "renting pandas", with an average annual rent of $500,000 per panda.
It was precisely because of the huge demand for income generation that everyone rushed to export and began to catch pandas in large quantities.
Furthermore.
Due to the fact that pandas in captivity belong to different institutions, the blood relationship is unknown, and many breeding institutions have orphan pandas.
Under the turbulent displacement, the normal physiological cycle of pandas will be disrupted, and some rented pandas will miss the estrus period and lose the opportunity to reproduce.
It is precisely because of the above problems.
September 12, 2007.
A spokesman for China's State Forestry Administration publicly announced that China would no longer give pandas to foreign governments.
But is the problem solved?
And it didn't.
The survival of pandas is still concerned and worried by us.
Although the gift and lease have come to an end, there are still cases of pandas sent abroad, or the descendants of pandas belonging to other countries.
For many countries, pandas are still a "top" level of existence in them.
In the zoo
There are cameras in the panda habitat
△ American drama "Madam Secretary"
Even we can't imagine.
If it weren't for the story of "Yaya" and "Lele", many people would have their eyes on these wanderers who are far away.
In normal times, how many people pay attention to the real life of national treasures on weekdays?
At the time of writing, Sir was curious and ran to check out the so-called "panda cameras."
Footage shows that most of the zoo's cameras are still functional.
The pandas are either eating, sleeping, or playing.
Only the Memphis Zoo where the Yaya incident occurred, could not be loaded, and the webpage showed 404.
△ The two GIFs were taken from the Panda Cam of the Smithsonian's National Zoo in the United States and the Edinburgh Zoo in the United Kingdom, respectively, at 4:30 p.m. on the day Sir wrote
Yaya will eventually return to China, which is of course a good thing.
But for pandas, what kind of life is what they want?
At present, a total of 67 giant panda nature reserves have been established on the mainland.
For the pandas living there, perhaps they will have more of their own world than the ya.
The sanctuary will take in the old and sick pandas and give them appropriate assistance.
This is what scholars believe is the best thing humans can do for pandas.
As for the pandas who have really reached the end of the road.
There is nothing humanity can do.
But for them.
Perhaps, he really embarked on the journey home.
Speaking of which, Sir remembers the final ending of the documentary "Going Home".
After several years of breeding and love.
Keepers prepare to release the pandas "high" back into the forest.
They know.
Even if you get along for a long time, the relationship is deep.
The nursery is not the real home of the panda.
They will carry it high up the mountain and drive it away.
At first, the high will be reluctant.
It goes halfway and turns back.
Until the breeder repeatedly drives away.
Gao Gao Cai twisted his ass.
Little by little, disappear into the mountains.
Seeing this scene, the keeper couldn't hold back tears.
But they know.
Only in this way is it truly good.
ay
It went home
We also went home
On the way home.
Everyone is fighting.
Someone left the last sentence on the height that disappeared into the mountains and forests.
We'll take a look at it tomorrow
They know.
Maybe come back tomorrow and never see it again.
But it doesn't matter.
Gao Gao, who has lost its protection, is finally no longer a national treasure held in the palm of his hand.
It is full of wildness, more like a pure animal, a complete panda.
We know.
It's finally home.
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