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|11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927 |
I'm wondering if there's a citation for this? It seem a bit unbelievable
that people and pandas would've coexisted nearby to each other for
thousands of years without ever coming into contact. Indeed, to the
extent that it can be trusted, Wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_panda#Early_references) claims that
a 1st century BCE Chinese empress was buried with a panda skull. 1927
could be around the time that there was a European discovery of pandas,
but I don't see that particular date corroborated anywhere, and that's
anyway not what this line claims.
I wonder if this line could be qualified to whatever "discovered (?!)"
actually meant to the author of this line ("first published about in an
international journal", "first seen by Europeans", etc) or removed since
I'd reckon it's more likely than not that this is incorrect.
Sincerely,
Fletcher Porter
