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Pandas live today in sichuan chinese province, but it hasn't always been. The geographical distribution of pandas has varied over the centuries. And the study of the bones of the panda's ancestors shows that The panda lived in Spain! The origin of the panda is neither Chinese nor Japanese, but European! Curious?🧐
Where do you live?
- Prehistoric population of panda
One of the older ancestors of the panda is the Ailuropoda. His fossils were found in China in 7 Chinese provincesThen Ailuropoda evolved into a larger giant panda, the baconi Ailuropoda melanoleuca. It is the most recent ancestor of the giant panda. Fossils from this giant panda were found in 18 Chinese provinces, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar.
Over the last 5,000 years, the panda lived in the provinces of Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Hunan, Hubei, Shanxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Henan, Guangdong and present-day Chongqing Municipality.
- The population panda today
Before the 1950s, the six mountains currently occupied by the giant panda were connected between them. Since then, the development of modern man has fragmented one's habitat. Human demography, deforestation, road and railroad construction destroyed and fragmented the panda's habitat. That's one of the reasons why pandas are in danger.
Today, these black and white bears live in the wild in Central China. They are concentrated in three provinces : Gansu, Shaanxi, and Sichuan (Chengdu).
Does the PANDAS have any ORIGINARY of the JAPON?
There are 10 pandas in Japan today. These pandas live in captivity in three different zoos. There are no wild-state pandas in Japan. The panda is not from JapanBut does it come from China? As we have seen above, the pandas are found in 3 Chinese provinces and live in the uplands on 6 mountains :
- The Qinling Mountains.
- Min Shan Mountains.
- The Qinghai Mountains.
- The Daxiangling Mountains.
- The Xiaoxiangling Mountains.
- The Liangshan Mountains.
THE PANDAS ARE SPAIN ORIGINARY
According to the last census of 2014, there are 1,864 giant pandas in the world. All of them present in Central China and yet their most distant ancestor is not from China but from Spain!
According to specialists, the lineage of these animals diverged from that of other bears between 18 and 22 million years ago. But the story remains fuzzy about how their lineage diverged from that of other bears. So far, the older ancestor known (Ailurarctos) dates to 8.2 million years and was discovered in China. The 2012 study is an important discovery.
Scientists studied two urchin jaws 11.6 million years old. They observed that fossils had the characteristics of a bear adapted for the consumption of hard plants like the bamboo, the only giant panda food of today. This, along with other observations, led them to conclude that they were in the an ancestor of the giant panda. A new species they attributed to a new zoological genus, Kretzoiarctos.
PANDAS ARE NATIVE TO EUROPE
On the other hand, paleoanthropologist David Begun 👨🌾discovered fossilized teeth in Hungary, like those of the giant panda. This discovery is further evidence that the black-and-white-coated animal may well come Europe, not Asia. The research team decided to name the species Miomaci panonnicum. But this fossil is not considered to be a direct descendant of the giant panda, but like his cousin.
Conclusion:
Climate change pushed the pandas to migrate from the European continent to the Asian continent! 🤓
It is possible that pandas may have migrated from Europe to Asia. Europe was wetter and warmer ten million years ago and had many subtropical forests. A change in climate five million years ago, which would have made Europe colder and drier, could have caused the panda's cousin to migrate to Asia. Or speed up its extinction.
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