What he said. You DON'T wanna be bitten by one. They still are bears and have the strongest bite among all bears. Polars have the deadliest, and browns the grizzliest (couldn't help it), and black bears the mauliest (should have helped that; most mauling) bites, yet pandas have the strongest.
An edition of national geographic magazine (some decades ago) had a story on giant pandas. They had a photo of a brown and white panda, which they said was a variant of the familiar black and white panda. I never knew there was a brown and white subspecies. I wonder why the chinese government does not promote them? What are their numbers compared to the black and white pandas?
They live in extremely remote locations cut off from all the other populations, which led to a lot of inbreeding. And I think it would be extremely difficult for the goverment to make these more prominent like the normal one, since they live in such remote locations and are difficult to get to.
Thank you very much. Your video taught me a lot and covered the subject well. As a long term subscriber, I can say your presentations are definitely improving.
At the mention of "Melanoleuca melanoleuca", I spontaneously burst into song with "La Cucaracha", followed by a fit of the giggles. I'm so glad I still have the mind of a 12 yr old, even as I'm pushing 50. :D
Excellent video Dr. Polaris 😁 Is there a possibility that you could make a video on Abelisaurids? One of my favorite dinosaurs is one of these guys and it would be nice to learn more about their evolution
Could you please do more about the "Panda's Thumb"? I saw something once saying pandas have two thumbs, either one is a false thumb (a real body part developed from something else), or a 2 and 3 digit (phalanges) split between 2 thumbs and 3 fingers. I don't recall if it was just giant pandas or just red pandas or any others.
Hi Doc, I've another crypto suggestion for you - Azzo Bassou. There are a few decent photographs of him available of him, but you may have to do some translation (due to a lot of the info being in French and Italian). Azzo Bassou was a bona fide Moroccan man. I first knew of him, not by name, from pictures in Peter Kolosimo's book "Timeless Earth" (Kolosimo was a kind of Von Daniken before Von Daniken, or at least ripped off by him) where he is called a living Neanderthal. Bassou did indeed look like a kind of ape man especially the brow ridges, but I suspect he was the result of inbreeding. Again I'm really surprised how little he's discussed on TH-cam, like the waitoreke, because he's an interesting subject. He never seems to have got onto the radar of the History Channel/Ancient Aliens crowd either.
@@keeganh1924 Did I say he was a crytid? No. He was a throwback and there was more going on there than mere microcephaly - he had a number of other atavistic features including the proportions of his limbs. If someone could ever get hold of his DNA, it would be interesting to analyse it. He doesn't seem to have been particularly aggressive or bad natured.
Hot take, but we should stop trying to save pandas from extinction. How many millions of dollars are we dedicating to a single finicky species which we could be spending on coral reefs? Or African rift lakes? Or ecological cleanups? Or the Amazon rainforest? They aren't even an important species to the native ecosystem.
Tbh i would like to save pandas from extinction, but i would also focus on saving other species like sea-otters, mangroves, pangolins, coral and so much more!
I kinda agree, but at the same time the panda became the picture for environmental protection in China. This actually helped to draw the attention of more and more chinese people, organisations, companies and the goverment towards enviromental protection in general.
@Ceilingdemon 01 yeah thats the problem all too specialised animals have. As long as the conditions are right, they are thriving. But if not, they easily can go extinct. In comparison, many invasive species are the opposite, and thus extremely adaptable. Like rats, carp, racoons or domesticated cats.
The panda would go extinct with or without human intervention. It's an animal so stupid and nature told it to eat meat and it said, "nah that stick looks tasty". Not to mention how stupid they are in general. I mean they climb trees that can't hold their weight and fall down injuring themselves regularly, they don't take care of their young, they don't understand even how to mate. It's pathetic.
Tbh, the fact that they choose between their two offspring and let the weaker one die is actually a bad adaptation. While most animals that care for their offspring tend to kill the weaker offspring, they often only do that if there is an immense food shortage, or if the offspring is so weak, that it could never survive. If the conditions are optimal, most birds and mammals don't tend to kill their weak offspring as they would usually do. Pandas do that even in the best conditions! And not only that, once they have chose which offspring they want to keep, they aren't even that good at caring for them anyway! They often forget that they exist or just accidentally kill them by sitting on them.
It's fun to hear Pandaren themes as you're talking about ancient pandas. Also, great video!
Thanks glad you caught that reference!
Those Panda are pretty much F teir in terms of being a bear,but at least they and their relatives are cool.
Yeah that’s right, but at least their cuteness is helping to save them from extinction.
Yep
You don't want to be bitten by one of those. Those jaws are designed to crunch through bamboo. Formidable claws.
What he said. You DON'T wanna be bitten by one. They still are bears and have the strongest bite among all bears. Polars have the deadliest, and browns the grizzliest (couldn't help it), and black bears the mauliest (should have helped that; most mauling) bites, yet pandas have the strongest.
An edition of national geographic magazine (some decades ago) had a story on giant pandas. They had a photo of a brown and white panda, which they said was a variant of the familiar black and white panda. I never knew there was a brown and white subspecies. I wonder why the chinese government does not promote them? What are their numbers compared to the black and white pandas?
You're right, the Qinling Pandas are very underrepresented. I didn't know too much about them before researching for this video.
Oh you mean the inbred subspecies from one mountain range right?
They live in extremely remote locations cut off from all the other populations, which led to a lot of inbreeding.
And I think it would be extremely difficult for the goverment to make these more prominent like the normal one, since they live in such remote locations and are difficult to get to.
Thank you very much. Your video taught me a lot and covered the subject well. As a long term subscriber, I can say your presentations are definitely improving.
Thanks so much for the support!
At the mention of "Melanoleuca melanoleuca", I spontaneously burst into song with "La Cucaracha", followed by a fit of the giggles.
I'm so glad I still have the mind of a 12 yr old, even as I'm pushing 50. :D
Haha, stay young at heart!
A great informative video as always and I am excited for the next one
Excellent video Dr. Polaris 😁
Is there a possibility that you could make a video on Abelisaurids? One of my favorite dinosaurs is one of these guys and it would be nice to learn more about their evolution
Great idea!
I've watched three or four of these. This was the best one.
Is that stormstout brewery I'm hearing?
Nice touch with the Pandaria music.
Thanks glad someone noticed that reference!
Could you please do more about the "Panda's Thumb"? I saw something once saying pandas have two thumbs, either one is a false thumb (a real body part developed from something else), or a 2 and 3 digit (phalanges) split between 2 thumbs and 3 fingers. I don't recall if it was just giant pandas or just red pandas or any others.
8:40 on a loop - the particular species new to me and what subject is your university study?
I'd never even heard of the Qinling Panda
good video
Giant pandas managed to outcute all their competitors.
Hi Doc, I've another crypto suggestion for you - Azzo Bassou. There are a few decent photographs of him available of him, but you may have to do some translation (due to a lot of the info being in French and Italian).
Azzo Bassou was a bona fide Moroccan man. I first knew of him, not by name, from pictures in Peter Kolosimo's book "Timeless Earth" (Kolosimo was a kind of Von Daniken before Von Daniken, or at least ripped off by him) where he is called a living Neanderthal. Bassou did indeed look like a kind of ape man especially the brow ridges, but I suspect he was the result of inbreeding. Again I'm really surprised how little he's discussed on TH-cam, like the waitoreke, because he's an interesting subject. He never seems to have got onto the radar of the History Channel/Ancient Aliens crowd either.
He wasn't a "cryptid," he was a regular person affected by microcephaly who was taken advantage of by sensationalist press
@@keeganh1924 Did I say he was a crytid? No. He was a throwback and there was more going on there than mere microcephaly - he had a number of other atavistic features including the proportions of his limbs. If someone could ever get hold of his DNA, it would be interesting to analyse it. He doesn't seem to have been particularly aggressive or bad natured.
A polar bear is talking about his Chinese cousin. 🐻❄️🐼
I'm thinking that the Pygmy Panda would have been just too cute to bare.
Hot take, but we should stop trying to save pandas from extinction. How many millions of dollars are we dedicating to a single finicky species which we could be spending on coral reefs? Or African rift lakes? Or ecological cleanups? Or the Amazon rainforest? They aren't even an important species to the native ecosystem.
To be honest, I agree with you. I've always though pandas have hogged the conservation spotlight simply because they're cute.
user.equalto.Null same
Tbh i would like to save pandas from extinction, but i would also focus on saving other species like sea-otters, mangroves, pangolins, coral and so much more!
I kinda agree, but at the same time the panda became the picture for environmental protection in China.
This actually helped to draw the attention of more and more chinese people, organisations, companies and the goverment towards enviromental protection in general.
@Ceilingdemon 01 yeah thats the problem all too specialised animals have.
As long as the conditions are right, they are thriving. But if not, they easily can go extinct.
In comparison, many invasive species are the opposite, and thus extremely adaptable.
Like rats, carp, racoons or domesticated cats.
Lung fu panda music would have been funny
So send at least $5 to Pistols for Pandas.
The panda would go extinct with or without human intervention. It's an animal so stupid and nature told it to eat meat and it said, "nah that stick looks tasty". Not to mention how stupid they are in general. I mean they climb trees that can't hold their weight and fall down injuring themselves regularly, they don't take care of their young, they don't understand even how to mate. It's pathetic.
Tbh, the fact that they choose between their two offspring and let the weaker one die is actually a bad adaptation.
While most animals that care for their offspring tend to kill the weaker offspring, they often only do that if there is an immense food shortage, or if the offspring is so weak, that it could never survive.
If the conditions are optimal, most birds and mammals don't tend to kill their weak offspring as they would usually do.
Pandas do that even in the best conditions!
And not only that, once they have chose which offspring they want to keep, they aren't even that good at caring for them anyway!
They often forget that they exist or just accidentally kill them by sitting on them.
You sir, are PANDAring to the fans. FOR SHAME!