Evolution of Pygmy Giant Panda
By: Jocelyn C. & Maribel G.
Natural Selection
Speciation
- Bamboo, primary diet
- Baconi & Giant Panda
- Change in body size. The bigger the better-more reproduction.
- Better fitted to reproduce.
Facts
Competition
- None
- Million years ago, Giant apes
- Name: Ailuropoda microta
- Evolved from primal panda (Ailuropoda lufengensis) about 2-3 MYA
- Skull (fossil) recently found in karst cave in China in 2005
- Resemble dogs
- Half the size of modern day pandas (3 ft)
Adaptation
Overproduction
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- Body Size-Mechanical Isolation
- Thrive in environment
- Survive
- Food- Bamboo
- Claws & Teeth for bamboo
- Why so big and fat?
- Threathened, continued habitat loss & human persecution
- Habitat isolation
- Population expansions: 2 bottleneck effects (glaciations)
- Close to being extinct, forest tree loss
- https://sites.google.com/site/urbanizationaftermath/home/evolution-of-the-panda
- www.thehindu.com
- http://www.bearsoftheworld.net/pygmy_giant_pandas.asp
- www.worldwildlife.org