Friends who often watch videos may have recently seen a short video of "Wild Giant Panda Found in Qinghai". Once the video was released, it quickly circulated on multiple social platforms and attracted a large number of netizens' attention.

The location in the video seems to be in a relatively desolate place, with yellow sand and rocks everywhere. There is indeed a bear-like creature not far away with distinct black and white hair, which is highly suspected to be a giant panda.

The video publisher clearly stated in the description that the location is the Shaliu River in Qinghai. After the video was released, it quickly aroused discussion among netizens. Many people said that it is impossible for wild giant pandas to appear in Qinghai.

As the popularity continues to rise, it has also attracted the attention of relevant people. Qi Xinzhang, deputy director of the Qinghai Wildlife Rescue and Breeding Center, mentioned: "Qinghai is located in the northeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. There is not even bamboo. Giant pandas will starve to death when they come. The climate is generally cold and dry, and there is no way for giant pandas to survive." Conditions."

It is true that giant pandas are highly fond of humidity, and they are not afraid of humidity. They prefer to stay in an environment with a humidity of 80%. The Shaliu River in Gangcha County, Haibei Prefecture, Qinghai, is located in the north of Qinghai. The climate is very arid and not suitable for giant pandas to survive at all, so the video posted online is most likely fake or has fake positioning, probably to attract eyeballs and attract traffic.

The survival status of giant pandas

Giant pandas are our national treasures. They are loved by people all over the world because of their cute appearance and naive behavior. The giant panda belongs to the Ursidae family, so it is actually a bear, an animal that is only distributed in our country.

The giant pandas that most people remember live in Sichuan, but did you know? In fact, there are two subspecies of giant pandas, namely the Sichuan subspecies of giant panda and the Qinling subspecies of giant panda.

In addition to Sichuan, there is also a species of giant panda living in the Qinling Mountains. Compared with the Sichuan subspecies, the Qinling giant panda is larger in size but has a smaller head proportions. In appearance, the Sichuan subspecies is cuter, so the most common images of giant pandas that are full of cuteness are almost all Sichuan giant pandas.

The distribution range of giant pandas is very narrow, and most wild individuals live in Sichuan. The fourth census data of giant pandas released by the Sichuan Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau Giant Panda National Park Sichuan Provincial Administration shows that , the giant panda population in Sichuan is 1,206, accounting for 76% of the national population.

Although Sichuan is the province with the largest distribution of wild giant pandas,There are not many habitats, theoretically only nearly 30,000 square kilometers. In fact, excluding rivers, roads, mountains, places without bamboo and other places where giant pandas cannot survive, the real area where giant pandas live is only about 20% of the total area. . Its habitat is strip-shaped and severely fragmented. None of its habitats is located in Qinghai Province.

The living habits of giant pandas

Many people may think that most animals have the habit of migration, such as the wildebeest on the African savannah, living in pursuit of water and grass; Snow leopards on snowy plateaus, where the snow is deep in winter, will live near tree lines at lower altitudes.

As a wild animal, is it possible that the giant panda came from Sichuan or Wandering all the way from the Qinling Mountains to Qinghai Province? There are indeed many animals in nature that have the habit of migration, and some animals will spread to very distant places along ecological corridors.

However, most of these animals are highly mobile and have significant exploratory behavior. For example, there is a male Bengal tiger in India code-named "C1" who once traveled thousands of kilometers from Tipishwar Wildlife Sanctuary to Danyang Nanga Wildlife Sanctuary.

The giant panda is actually a very lazy and homely animal, and is known as the "hermit in the bamboo forest". Because in the process of evolution, giant pandas have almost given up meat, and bamboo accounts for 99% of their diet.

Bamboo is a very nutritious food, and the heat absorption rate of giant pandas from bamboo is much lower than that of meat. This causes giant pandas to eat a lot of food every day in order to maintain the energy they need to survive. Therefore, giant pandas spend a lot of time eating every day.

While increasing revenue, we must also reduce expenditure. In order to reduce consumption, giant pandas have become immobile. They eat, sleep, and play every day, so their range of activities is very limited.

The Shaliu River in Qinghai is far away from Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gannan. It is simply unrealistic for wild giant pandas to wander there.

There have been no giant pandas in Qinghai since ancient times

Not to mention that there are no giant pandas distributed in Qinghai today. Even the unearthed fossil data shows that there were no giant pandas distributed in Qinghai Province in history. Giant pandas are known as the "living fossils" of the animal kingdom and have been living on the earth for about 8 million years.

The oldest known ancestor of the giant panda is a small animal that evolved from a panda that lived in the late Miocene Epoch, and is known as the "Eo-Panda".

The appearance of primitive pandas is very different from that of modern giant pandas.It is also much smaller, about the same size as a fat fox. The original panda was a carnivore, mainly feeding on some small animals on the earth at that time.

The evolution of giant pandas into what they are today has roughly gone through four stages, namely the primitive panda stage, the small species giant panda stage, the Papilloma giant panda stage, and the modern giant panda stage.

In the early Pleistocene, small species of giant pandas had evolved, and by this time they had transitioned to eating bamboo as their staple food. The appearance of small species of giant pandas is closer to that of modern giant pandas, but they are still smaller.

In the middle and late Pleistocene, giant pandas appeared, which were about 12% larger than modern giant pandas. It was also at this stage that the giant panda family reached its heyday.

Throughout the Pleistocene period, the giant panda’s habitats were widely distributed, covering most areas in eastern and southern my country, and even once extended to Myanmar and Vietnam. Although the giant panda was at its peak, its distribution range did not touch Qinghai Province.

There are many opinions that the evolution of giant pandas to the stage of modern giant pandas has reached the end of species evolution. If it were not for the key protection of humans, they would probably have disappeared from the earth. Is this view correct? I have reservations, but it also illustrates the living habits of giant pandas.

No matter from the perspective of ancient and modern distribution or their feeding habits and habits, it is impossible for wild giant pandas to be distributed in Qinghai, so it goes without saying whether the video posted online is true or false.