"Wait, wait, be careful, I think this panda is weird!" At this time, Han Peacock stopped several people who wanted to put the bear into the refrigerator.
"Is this a black bear, or a panda?" Han Peacock looked like an animal that looked like a bear and a panda. It was probably not a panda, but the ancestor of the panda, the panda.
"Is it really the panda?" Mu Ling asked curiously as he looked at the animals in the ice.
"Do you know what a panda is?" Jin Yao said on the side.
Mu Ling rolled her eyes at her husband and said, "I usually spend all my time reading books playing games. You will know if you read more books."
At this time, Han Kongque said: "According to the latest research results, giant pandas appeared in the late Miocene at the latest. Their direct ancestors were Eo-pandas and lived in hot and humid forests. It seems that this place is really a hot and rainy zone."
, otherwise, it would be impossible for the Eo-Panda to appear."
"In fact, the presence of the ancestor elephant has proved the climate and environment here in ancient times." Mu Ling said.
Han Peacock nodded and said: "The emergence of the Eo-Panda proves that the climate environment here has begun to change. According to the research and analysis of the discovered fossils, it was discovered as early as 8 million years ago in the late Miocene.
The beginning of panda.
However, the ancestors of giant pandas such as Eo panda lived on the edge of tropical moist forests, so for a period of time, this place was on the edge of tropical forests."
"This thing really looks like a bear." Huang Shan said.
"What does it look like? When I see it, it reminds me of a fox. No matter how I look at it, I don't think of a naive giant panda." Jin Yao said.
Han Peacock looked at the bear and smiled. The giant panda is actually a bear, and the panda is the earliest panda that evolved from the pseudoursine and mainly eats carnivores. Its individual body is really
Like a fatter fox.
It has been discovered in China before, but it was discovered in Yuanmou, Yunnan Province. It was an "Eo-Panda" fossil dating back 4 million years ago, and the geological era was at the end of the Pliocene Epoch.
If the "Eo-Panda" is considered to be the first giant panda in China, then giant pandas appeared earlier than humans in China.
"Does he look like a fox? To me, he neither looks like a bear nor a fox, but looks like a cat." Mu Ling said.
Han Peacock also said at this time: "That's right. In fact, the shape of this thing is like a cat. The ancestor of the panda is the panda. The scientific name of the giant panda is actually 'cat-like bear', which means 'cat-like bear'."
In other words, 'panda is similar to a bear in nature but similar in appearance to a cat'. Strictly speaking, 'panda' is the wrong noun."
"Since it's wrong, then how did you scream?" Jin Yao said.
Han Kongque said: "It sounds like a joke. I heard that this 'wrong answer' was caused by this: Before liberation, the Beibei Museum in Chongqing, Sichuan, once exhibited cat and panda specimens, and the explanation board read 'cat panda' across the board from left to right.
'Two words.
However, at that time, newspapers and periodicals were accustomed to reading horizontal headlines from right to left, so reporters mistakenly wrote "cat panda" as "panda" in their reports. In this way, the word "panda" was widely spread by the media and became a common saying.
If it is wrong, it will be difficult to correct it, so people have to make mistakes and call 'cat panda' 'panda'."
"It's really child's play." Huang Shan said.
"Although the name is childish, it actually looks a bit cute." Mu Ling looked at Shi Panda who seemed to be sleeping.
"Is it cute? Look at its claws and its strong body. This thing cannot be called cute." Jin Yao said.
"It's not as big as the current giant panda! Why can't it be cute?" Mu Ling said.
"Tch, giant pandas are cute?" Huangshan also retorted.
Although the giant panda seems to be in peace with the world, there are still some animals that are enemies of them in its habitat, such as golden cats, leopards, jackals, wolves, yellow-throated martens, etc., but they mainly attack giant pandas.
cubs and sick and elderly people, because young and strong giant pandas are still "strong in martial arts".
Modern giant pandas have inherited the ferocious temperament of their ancestors, and will fight back bravely once provoked.
They use their big palms to hit the enemy, and they also use their strong bodies to hit the enemy. Leopards and wolves are also afraid of the strong giant pandas, so they have to take a detour. Therefore, even giant pandas are not as cute as people think.
, let alone the panda.
"Isn't it true that giant pandas are only found in our country? Why are they found here too?" Huangshan asked.
Han Kongque said: "You also said that our country has giant pandas, and this is the EoPanda. The EoPanda originally lived in Europe, so there is nothing strange about it appearing here."
"This thing is smaller than a giant panda!" Huangshan Bar smacked his lips.
Han Peacock looked at the boy in confusion. Was he hungry? But no matter how he looked at him, he seemed to want to eat the bear.
"Is there also a primitive panda in Europe?" Mu Ling asked curiously.
"Yes." Han Peacock answered affirmatively.
Other Korean peacocks don't know, but Korean peacocks know that a branch of the panda that evolved from the original panda is called the Geshi Suburban Panda. It is distributed in the humid forests of Hungary and France in Europe and became extinct at the end of the Miocene.
The main branch of the Eo-Panda continues to evolve in central and southern China. One of them appeared in the early Pleistocene about 3 million years ago. Its size is only half the size of the living giant panda, like a fat dog.
Its fossils have been named a small species of giant panda.
Now, the primitive panda discovered by Han Kongque and his colleagues is evolving towards a small species of giant panda. This process lasted for millions of years.
For example, small species of giant pandas took about another 2 million years before they began to extend into subtropical humid forests and replaced the original pandas in Yunnan, Guangxi and Sichuan.
Afterwards, giant pandas further adapted to life in subtropical bamboo forests and gradually increased in size. The middle and late Pleistocene, 500,000 to 700,000 years ago, was the heyday of giant pandas. The size of the fossil giant panda Wulingshan subspecies is only smaller than that of living giant pandas.
About 1/8 smaller.
By the late Pleistocene, the size of the fossil giant panda subspecies Batauri was generally about 1/8 larger than that of living giant pandas, and they relied on bamboo for survival.
This is a natural evolution process. Throughout the Pleistocene, the fossil subspecies giant panda has been widely distributed, almost all over eastern and southern China, from Zhoukoudian in the north to Taiwan Island, Myanmar, Vietnam, and northern Thailand in the south.
At that time, giant pandas lived together with saber-toothed tigers, saber-toothed elephants, capital ape man, and australopithecines, forming a typical Pleistocene giant panda-stegodon animal fossil group.
In the middle and late Pleistocene, the Qinling Mountains and the mountains to the south experienced drastic changes in the natural environment such as large-scale glaciers. Especially after the Quaternary Ice Age about 18,000 years ago, the giant panda-Stegodon
The fauna declined, and most animals became extinct, leaving only countless fossils to show that they once existed.
At this time, the giant pandas in the north became extinct, and the distribution area of the giant pandas in the south suddenly shrank, entering a period of historical decline.
The Eo-Panda here must have become extinct earlier, or it may have been extinct not long after the Eo-Panda fell into the ice cave.
As I said just now, the Eo-Panda lives on the edge of tropical forests, and the condition for preserving this Eo-Panda is to be frozen, and it will be frozen forever.
Therefore, from this very beginning, it can be seen that the panda lives in an era of drastic climate change.
Until now, only the giant pandas that evolved in China have survived. The giant pandas in other parts of the world have become extinct during the process of evolution. Therefore, in the history of animal evolution, the giant panda is the leader. In the competition for survival, the giant panda is the leader.
The successful one.
"This thing is so well preserved, I wonder if its bear paws are still delicious?" Huangshan said with a smile after handling most of the ice outside and looking at the two fat bear paws.
"You're really good at it. Even pandas want to eat it." Jin Yao had to express his admiration for Huangshan. This kid dares to think about anything.
"Didn't you say this is also a bear? It's a bear, so of course it wants to eat bear paws." Huangshan said matter-of-factly.
Han Peacock laughed and said, "That's natural. It's dead anyway. After some research, I'll cut off the bear's paws, steam them and eat them."
"Is it really delicious?" Jin Yao looked at Han Peacock, wondering why the boss was so crazy.
Huangshan said proudly: "Do you know if you live in the present? Do you have any culture? If this is a living black bear, I can't kill it because I like to eat bear paws, but a dead guy, even if it is
It's a precious panda, if it can be eaten, I will eat it too."
Before the golden demon could speak, Mu Ling said: "You are right, life is of course more important. Even if an ordinary black bear is not as precious as this panda, it is a dead thing after all and cannot be compared with a living life.
"
The golden demon said unconvinced: "The question is whether it can be eaten? Do you dare to eat it? I haven't heard that this thing is more than four million years old? Do you know how many years the current zombie meat has been stored? Thirty or forty years at most, and this
This thing is at least four million years old. Even if it’s not broken, do you dare to eat it?”
"So I'm not asking the boss? The boss is very knowledgeable. If he says it's edible, we'll eat it." Huang Shan looked at Han Peacock and said.
Han Kongque smiled bitterly and said: "You are really easy to feed. However, I really don't know if panda meat is edible, but mammoth meat is okay."
"Ah!" The golden demon exclaimed in surprise.
The wood spirit was also surprised and said: "Can mammoth meat be eaten?"
"Although I heard it's not delicious and smells bad, it's really edible," Han Kongque said.
"It stinks? Does mammoth meat smell?" Huangshan said a little disappointed.
"It should be because it was not preserved well, so it stinks, but some people have eaten it in history. Historical records indicate that during the Southern and Northern Dynasties of our country, some people ate the 'frozen meat' of mammoths." Han Peacock said.
"Has anyone really eaten it?" Jin Yao asked suspiciously.
Han Peacock smiled and said: "How can I lie to you about this? In modern times, when the Beresovka elephant was discovered, there were rumors that Russian officials had used its meat to feast guests." (To be continued.)