Animals · · 1 min read

Everybody Loves a Panda

As the Postcrosser who sent this from China said, "Everybody loves a panda".

From the Wiki, a couple things I didn't know about pandas:

1. Their name is "Giant Panda", not "just plain panda".

2. There is a "Red Panda", which looks more like a cat.

3. The giant panda has the second longest tail in the bear family.

4. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. was the first Westerner to shoot a giant panda, on an expedition in the 1920s funded by the Field Museum of Natural History.

5. The first giant panda in a US zoo was brought to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago in 1936.

Now you know!

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