Animal Take : Panda Tidbits

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The black-and-white giant panda Ailuropoda melanoleuca is endemic to China; so, it is not immediately known to the Western world except for the lucky few: 
  • The French missionary Armand David received a skin from a hunter in 1869.
  • The German zoologist Hugo Weigold was the first Westerner to see a living giant panda when he purchased a cub in 1916.
  • On an expedition funded by the Field Museum of Natural History in the 1920s, Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. became the first Westerners to shoot a panda.
  • In 1936, Ruth Harkness brought back a live giant panda to live at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.
  • Floyd Tangier Smith captured and delivered five giant pandas to London in 1938.
Now, let's just enjoy these pandas and their antics!

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