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Panda - is Sichuan's pride


The giant panda is the national treasures of China, is facing the endangered rare animals. To date, more than 200 countries around the world and in almost the brink of extinction of giant pandas, China's only in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu parts of the mountains and come to find them on the scene. At present the total number of the world's giant pandas only 1000 the following, and the numbers continued to decline. According to scientific statistics that 78 percent of female giant pandas infertility, 90% of the infertile male giant pandas, which the propagation of giant pandas to bring a lot of difficulties.

     In zoology, the giant panda is Carnivores. According to research, the ancient name of the giant panda tapir, white leopard, such as danger. In more than 200 years ago during the early rehabilitation to 100 million years ago the world of advanced rehabilitation, the giant pandas have been widely distributed in southern part of China, formed a giant panda - a saber-toothed elephant fauna; today many of the fauna Species extinction has been, and the giant pandas has been alive, so pandas "living fossil" is.

     The giant pandas living in China's western Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the eastern edge of the ravine dense mountain forest of bamboo, and led a mysterious "Hermit" life. Construction and special forms, Bingxing strange, biologists on the classification of animals has been no uniform understanding. Some put it together with the inclusion of Bear Bear Branch, and some put it together with the inclusion of Bear Bear Branch, as a highly specialized bears; some independent again as it Ailuropodidae panda Branch. For more than 100 years, from the giant panda anatomy, fossil material, ecological aspects of a large number of studies, has not yet concluded. In recent years scientists from biochemistry and molecular biological research, classification of a more in-depth development, but has not yet reached the understanding that unified conclusion.

     After the long history of giant pandas development can survive today, it has reflected the great vitality. However, because of the historical development of the adverse effects of factors, it has been in a state endangered. In the various unfavorable factors, the reason is because of its inherent feeding, breeding and nursery capacity of a high degree of specialization. External reason is habitat destruction, a non-contact island distribution, leading to population segmentation, inbreeding, the species degradation. Coupled with the cyclical staple food of bamboo flowering death, artificial capture hunting, natural hazards, disease problems. This constitutes a serious threat to the survival of giant pandas to face endangered position.

Date:2008-4-9
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