Chapter Ninety-Six: Giant Panda 2
They are never afraid of humidity and always prefer to live in a humid world with a humidity of more than 80%.
If you get wet or wade through a river, you can shake off the water like a dog.
They spend most of their time in their sleep except for half of their daily feeding.
In the wild, giant pandas sleep for 2~4 hours in the middle of every two feedings.
They sleep either flat, on their side, on their stomachs, or in a stretched or curled up ball.
It is precisely because they like to curl up in a ball that they have earned the nickname "Rolling".
They sometimes stretch their bodies like cats, with their front bodies stretched out, their hind bodies lifted to allow them to stretch flexibly, or their forelimbs stretched straight and yawning.
Lu Zheng learned at the Furong City Zoo that the keepers would feed them twice a day.
They are very nimble and are able to put their bulky bodies in a variety of positions.
Their favorite posture is to prop their legs on a tree and cover their eyes with their hands.
Lu Zheng saw that its chubby body and his slow walking style were particularly cute.
Lu Zheng listened to the narrator: This is because they live in an environment where there is enough food, there are no natural enemies, and there is no need to act quickly.
It is this slow-moving action that allows it to conserve ample energy and adapt to low-energy foods.
According to the narrator, the giant panda still retains the relatively simple digestive tract of carnivores, does not have the complex stomach and huge cecum that herbivores have, and there are no symbiotic bacteria or ciliates in the stomach and intestines that are used to ferment cellulose in plants into nutrients that can be absorbed.
The only way for them to get the nutrients they need is to eat and pull as they go.
An adult giant panda weighing 100 kg spends 12~16 hours a day in the spring, eating 10~18 kg of bamboo leaves and stalks, or 30~38 kg of fresh bamboo shoots, and excreting more than 10 kg of feces at the same time to maintain the balance of metabolism.
The panda's food is poor in nutrition and cannot have too much energy storage.
In order to conserve energy, they must control activities that consume too much energy.
Therefore, it prefers to walk in gentle places and avoid climbing.
Because the five clawed toes on their forepaws are born side by side, in addition to a sixth finger, that is, a powerful sesamoid bone grows from the carpal bone, which plays the role of a "thumb", and this "thumb" can cooperate with the other five fingers to hold bamboo well, and even grasp things, climb trees, etc.
Giant pandas are good at climbing trees and love to play.
The act of climbing a tree is generally a way to avoid the strong when the marriage proposal is approaching, or to avoid danger, or when they meet each other.
Giant pandas in the wild sometimes descend into the valleys, string into small villages or houses, and use pots and buckets, especially round utensils, as toys, and abandon them after playing.
Sometimes they are friendly with sheep, pigs and other domestic livestock, and they eat and live together.
Giant pandas are always very docile, and when they first meet people, they often cover their faces with their forepaws, or lower their heads, and do not show their true faces, which makes them very shy.
When giant pandas encounter people by chance in the wild, they always adopt an avoidant approach.
They rarely actively attack other animals or people, and they usually have internal conflicts during the heat season, especially when three or four males are pursuing a female in heat.
Sometimes, females and males also fight.
The other is that once you become a mother, her little baby is sacrosanct, even if it is caring, it will anger the mother, open her teeth and claws, and move her hands and feet.
"Go away, don't touch my baby. Otherwise, I'm not kind to you!"
Lu Zheng saw in the zoo:
They usually fight over water, toys, food, or a certain giant panda taking advantage of their good territory.
"Bastard, get out of the way! It's baby water!"
"Your water, obviously I came first. I warn you, stand back, or don't blame me for being rude to you!"
"I'm good at kung fu, when did you show mercy to my subordinates when you saw me fighting?"
Bump~bump~
"I never talk nonsense when I do it!" "It's rare to listen to your nonsense, first to do it, and then to suffer."
This is because of the battle of water.
"You stand away a little, this is me, let my brother show you!"
"Yuanyuan" stretched out a paw and pulled his companion away directly, I don't care who you are, playing with toys, I'm a professional!
Where could "Rolling" let it play alone, naturally not to be left behind, he got up, and directly turned over the empty bucket and pressed it on "Yuanyuan".
Just now, the "round" head had already been drilled into the bucket, so I had to "scream" and beg for mercy:
"Big brother, it hurts! You let me get up first! Pain, big brother! Hurry up and let go first, let me get up, it's a big deal to play together!"
Sometimes they walk out of the steps that they don't recognize, and sometimes they roll on the ground a few times, which is very cute.
Lu Zheng saw that there was a guy over there who was still doing sit-ups, as if to say: "It's hard to have a little sun today, I'm here to bask in the sun, and by the way, I will work out!"
There was also a panda over there, putting his right hand on his companion: "Brother, brother will discuss something for you, your bamboo shoots are so delicious, give me some?"
After speaking, he didn't wait for others to agree, and grabbed the middle part directly to bite it!
Anyway, I said hello, but you didn't answer yourself, so I just took you by default!
It broke the bamboo shoot, split it in two, and sat side by side with the brother in front of it, and ate it seriously.
In addition to bamboo, giant pandas also eat some weeds and other plants, and sometimes some wildflowers, vines, weeds, honey, but the amount they eat is very small.
It is not a real "monk", and when it encounters an opportunity, it will also open a "meat" to restore the nature of its ancestors.
For example, there is a kind of pest in its habitat, called bamboo rat, commonly known as "bamboo stalk", which eats the underground roots of arrow bamboo, so that arrow bamboo die.
However, the bamboo rat meat is tender and delicious, rich in nutrition, as a local saying goes: "The turtledove in the sky, the bamboo slip on the ground".
The giant panda has an ingenious way to deal with the bamboo rat, once it smells its scent, or finds its traces, it can quickly find its burrow, and then spew into the hole with its mouth and slap it vigorously with its front paws, forcing the bamboo rat to flee in a hurry, and the giant panda takes the opportunity to jump up, hold it down with its front paws, tear off the rat's skin, and eat its flesh. If the bamboo rat does not come out of the burrow, the giant panda will dig a hole and raid the house until it is caught.
Some zoologists have found that the main reasons for the drastic decline in the number of giant pandas are:
One is that the food of the giant panda is too simple, and the second is that the breeding rate of the giant panda is too low.