Giant Panda - slideshow
· To mark their location, pandas will back up to a tree
and rub their scent glands on the tree, then use their
tail to spread the scent. Some pandas, particularly
males will back up on the tree until they are virtually
doing a handstand in order to place their scent
higher on the tree.
History
· The Giant Panda was first made
known to the West in 1869 by the
French missionary Armand
David, who received a skin from
a hunter.
· The first westerner known to
have seen a living Giant Panda is
the German zoologist Hugo
Weigold, who purchased a cub
in 1916.
· The Giant Panda has been a · The population boom in
target for poaching by locals China after 1949 created
since ancient times, and by stress on the pandas'
foreigners since it was habitat.
introduced to the West. · During the Cultural
· Starting in the 1930s, Revolution, all studies and
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