The Great Panda

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22050, 25 March 1937, Page 5 (Supplement)

The Great Panda

The great panda, otherwise known as the short-tailed panda, is about the size of a small baar; it is sometimes called the bear-cat, probably because it looks like a bear and moves with a stealthy, cat-

woolly coat with exciting patches of black as the picture shows. The* panda is found only in North-West China, in wet swampy jungles; it feeds on the roots of forest plants and on leaves and

young shoots. It is a relative <A j the racoon and like that animal it j snoozes the day away and at night ( creeps out to feed and joam » through the' jungle. No one seeins . to know if it lives in a den or a < cave or in a lair among the tangled ;

undergrowth of the forest. Hunter} do not bother to shoot it and flntt that it is a peaceable creature to meet. :t is slow and stolid ana has short blunt teeth not at m cruel looking.