The number of giant pandas in the wild has reached more than 1,800, and the level of threat has been reduced from endangered to vulnerable. The downgrading of giant pandas is not a decline in protection level, but an increase in the number of their wild populations, and a decrease in the protection level of wild giant pandas. It is understood that the distribution of giant pandas is mainly in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu.
How many wild giant pandas are there in Sichuan? Recently, incidents of occasional encounters with wild pandas have occurred frequently. Some time ago in Qionglai, a medicine farmer went up the mountain to collect medicine, found a giant panda in the tree to cool off, the medicine farmer said hello and left.
On October 4, in The Tibetan Village of Gari in Baoxing County, Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, local herders came across a wild giant panda descending the mountain to "patrol the mountains" while driving up the road to check and feed yaks.
It is understood that the herdsmen and lovers are all from Gari Village, who usually work in Baoxing City, their families are in Baoxing Village, and there are thirty or forty yaks on the mountain. At that time, he and his relatives and friends were driving up the mountain to check and feed the yaks, and after finding this wild giant panda, they immediately stopped the car, afraid of disturbing the giant panda, and turned off the music.
In the Ya'an and Qionglai areas of Sichuan, wild giant pandas often appear near the crowd, why should wild pandas stay in Sichuan for a long time? Why do wild giant pandas appear frequently near humans?
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Giant pandas belong to the only mammals in the genus Giant Panda in the subfamily Giant Panda family of the carnivorous bear family. Because of its fat body shape similar to a bear, very rich, the head is very round, and the tail is short, and the shape is very cute, belongs to a flexible fat man, deeply loved by people all over the world.
Giant pandas mainly live in dense bamboo forests at an altitude of 2600-3500 meters, where the air is thin all year round, the clouds are thick, and the temperature is below 20 ° C. As long as the bamboo is sufficient and the terrain and water distribution are reasonable, it is the best environment for giant pandas to nest, hide and feed
Because giant pandas have lived on the earth for at least 8 million years, they are known as living fossil species, and because of their distribution in China, they are called "China's national treasures" and are the flagship species of species diversity conservation around the world.
However, the ancestor of the giant panda, the first panda, was born in the late Miocene 8 million years ago and continued to evolve mainly in the central and southern parts of China.
Emerging in the early Pleistocene, about 3 million years ago, new species of giant pandas emerged, but were widely distributed in North China, Northwest China, East China, Southwest China, South China, and even Vietnam and northern Myanmar, mainly living in subtropical bamboo forests. This species also serves as a bamboo-eating omnivorous animal, an oviparous bear.
In the middle and late Pleistocene, 500,000-700,000 years ago, the giant panda further evolved, with six paws, respectively, the five toes of the normal claws and one doing "radial sesamoid bone", the radial sesamoid bone mainly plays the role of holding bamboo.
From 1862 to 1874, while living in China by a French missionary, the existence of wild giant pandas was discovered, and the address found was located in Baoxing County, Ya'an, Sichuan.
Why are there so many wild pandas in Ya'an, Sichuan? The main reason for this is that Sichuan's geographical location is very special, spanning the first and second steps of China's terrain, high in the west and low in the east, and sloping from northwest to southeast. The terrain is complex and diverse, including the Sichuan Basin, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Hengduan Mountains, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and the Qinling Mountains.
And Sichuan belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate, the temperature is suitable, the rainfall is abundant, so that in Sichuan not only has many high mountains, but also Sichuan's streams and springs are luscious, trees are towering, and the scenery of the four seasons is pleasant. The Ya'an Mountains in Sichuan belong to the transition zone from the basin to the plateau, with an altitude that is very suitable for the giant panda to live at, and the food is abundant.
It is understood that at present, The sichuan giant panda mainly lives in 6 narrow strips, including several major mountain systems such as Minshan, Qionglaishan, Liangshan, Daxiangling, Xiaoxiangling and Qinling. It includes 45 counties in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu, of which 80% are distributed in Sichuan.
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Many people find that in Sichuan, it is very easy to encounter giant pandas, and Sichuan's giant pandas will often go down the mountain, run into villagers' homes to get food, etc. Many people think that the habitat of giant pandas is not too far from the place where humans gather.
In fact, it is not the giant panda that actively approaches humans, but the large-scale deforestation of humans, the construction of houses and roads, causing the destruction of vegetation, and the habitat of giant pandas is getting smaller and smaller. Human activity is gradually approaching the habitat of giant pandas, so the chances of encountering giant pandas are becoming more and more frequent.
And another reason why giant pandas are often seen in Sichuan is that Sichuan has the most food for giant pandas. According to the survey, there are 19 genera and nearly 164 species of bamboo in Sichuan, of which 23 are in the genus Jianzhu, more than 40 species are available for giant pandas to eat, and nearly 30 species are staple foods of bamboo.
The distribution area of bamboo in Sichuan is large, there are many types, in the nutritional growth period, and there are many shoots. Therefore, giant pandas will also appear frequently, because the giant pandas spend half of their daily eating time, and most of the remaining half of the time is sleeping.
In short, there are many wild giant pandas in Sichuan, driving to meet giant pandas, driving must turn off the engine, turn off all sounds; rural areas encounter giant pandas first call the police, and evacuate the village.
Do not disturb wild pandas, after all, giant pandas not only eat bamboo, but also eat meat, which has the attributes of a bear. Once it hurts, the consequences are unimaginable.