Some records show that there were pandas as early as the ice age around 1 to 3 million years ago! They are said to have invented the earliest know snowboards to man. Some cave-inscriptions actually show the pandas getting flat rocks, waxing them up, and going "ROOOAR" in a thought bubble. Many of the pandas ended their lives prematurely but crashing into mountain sides. A fossilized lower jaw of a panda was excavated in the province of Nizice Grizzeat Caverns. It was said to almost look like a smile. It is the earliest record of today's species of the giant panda. A Chinese farmer has donated to the provincial museum of southwest China's Guizhou province a fossil of the cranium of a giant panda. Museum officials said that the donation is the best preserved fossil of the giant panda's cranium to date, despite the huge hole in it the back.
It is estimated that only 1,000 pandas survive in China's bamboo-rich provinces. Each panda is trained in atleast ten fighting styles since their birth, mainly by the male-leader. However, the main art is boxing. Also, if the panda is born near a bamboo field, it will most likely be rasied to fight with bamboo nun-chachus. Only rarely will a human see these fights, for they are held in an orderly fasion inside of caves. Their numbers,however, are being whittled down as man has enroached on their habitat, destroyed their bamboo, their caves and also, by their poor reproductive capabilities, both in the wild and in captivity. Not to mention their everyday struggle for survival with natural predators and mother nature, pandas, are somewhat bullies to each other, what with the clubings with bamboo blackjacks and all. It's a sad world for the pandas these days. |