Giant pandas, as China's unique national treasures, are famous for selling cuteness, and since the 1980s, pandas have conquered foreigners with their cute and silly images.
When the first panda arrived in the United States, Helen Keller flew to feel the "tenderness" of the panda, the bear "went abroad" because of a theft incident, the person who stole the panda was named Ruth Harkness, and she also wrote a bestseller book "The Lady and the Panda".
Japan is also famous for loving pandas, and there is an episode in "Cherry Pills" to visit pandas, and Pills says that seeing pandas is her lifelong wish.
In order to make the Japanese people look at the panda, the Japanese zoo is also painstaking, but also specially painted the crocodile black and white, if we have not seen the panda, but also really deceived, do not know the colored crocodile, what is the psychology thinking, must be extremely helpless!
Although the giant panda is a national treasure of our country, we do not know much about him, only some professionals know the past and present lives of the panda, and we will briefly explain the giant panda today.
Don't look at the giant panda stupid cute, stupid cute, it has lived on the earth for at least 8 million years, these 8 million years of vicissitudes, did not let the panda go extinct, and hundreds of thousands of years of giant pandas into the heyday of the era.
According to fossil studies, before the giant panda degenerated, it belonged to the saber-toothed elephant paleontum, with huge size, teeth and claws are very sharp, and few large beasts in the same era were its opponents.
In the natural law of the weak and the strong, the giant panda eliminated one competitor after another, became the last panda to laugh, with the climate change, the giant panda also had to make changes, first of all, the oxygen concentration dropped, the atmosphere suddenly changed, eliminated a number of huge animals, pandas in order to survive, also had to evolve the body.
When the atmospheric environment changes, food also becomes scarce, the giant panda is an omnivore, it eats everything, this tenacious survival function, let it survive.
Although its teeth and claws are degenerate, but the good villain still belongs to the bear family, some scientists have tested, the giant panda's claws are as sharp as a scalpel, and ordinary animals are basically crippled if they are hit by a claw.
In the era of ancient mythology, the giant panda with excellent combat effectiveness became the mount of the god of war, Xuan You, and the Yellow Emperor also domesticated the beast, but was not the opponent of the giant panda.
Giant pandas have many names in ancient times, including: silver dog, cat, fierce, leopard and bamboo bear (named after eating bamboo), but there is also a most domineering name for the iron-eating beast.
Iron-eating beasts appear in many upper classical texts, including in the "Divine Anomaly Sutra" compiled by Dongfang Shuo: There are beasts in the south, known as iron.
The description of the giant panda in "Erya Shi Beast" is a little more detailed: like a bear, a small head, a paralyzed foot, black and white barge, and can lick copper and iron and bamboo bones.
The Ming Dynasty's "New Qi Harmonic First Collection" is more detailed: There are tapirs in Fangxian County, which are good at eating copper and iron without hurting people, and all folk ploughs, knives, axes, and the like, see salivation, and eat like rot.
Judging from these records, we can also know that giant pandas can easily bite into iron blocks, and such a powerful bite force cannot be done by tigers and lions.
Lion is the lord of the grassland, generally also encountered China's giant panda, but the tiger may meet, but the tiger likes to come alone, in full grasp, the tiger will not easily prey, the giant panda is huge, the tiger naturally respects it.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Western world recognized this animal and translated it as "panda", and over time, this name became conventional.