PANDA WAS VEGETARIAN
PROBLEM FOR SURGEONS
LONDON, January 1
Sung, tlie Giant Panda, which in life delighted Zoo visitors, will in death provide the Royal College, of Surgeons with one of its most interesting anatomical subjects. Never before has a complete specimen been available at .the ctollege for dissection. Dr? A. j. E. Cave, assistant conservator- of the college museum, is mak-
ing the examination, which will take months. He may discover the cause of Sung’s mysterious death.
Dr. Cave said yesterday that the investigation was particularly interest-; ing because the panda was ancestrally’ carnivorous and. is now vegetarian, its diet consisting solely of bamboo shoots.
“The panda has the live digits,” he, added, “but has undergone a modifica-' tion of the forefoot. A pseudo thumb, a little bone, has developed on the thumb side of the wrist. Against this bone the panda holds the bamboo stalks while it cats.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 February 1940, Page 3
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