Word: melanoleucus
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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About the size of a black bear, weighing 200 to 300 Ib., the giant panda has long, creamy fur, black forelegs and shoulders, black ears, black circles around its eyes, cat-like feet. It eats bamboo shoots. Natives call it beishung (white bear) and scientists call it Ailuropus melanoleucus. So scarce is it that when the Roosevelts shot theirs, inhabitants of the nearest village, 25 miles distant, had never seen or heard of such a creature...
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