Word: panda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heuvelmans points out that armchair zoologists have been announcing for nearly 150 years that no new animal would ever be found. But dozens have been found since then, including the Indian tapir, the Kodiak bear, the pygmy chimpanzee, the giant panda and the Komoda-dragon. Heuvelmans is confident that still more animals exist on earth than are dreamt of in the zoologist's handbooks...
...wheel through a recurring drama of birth, death and rebirth. Existence is pain. The root of pain is desire. By following the Way of Buddha, a man can eliminate desire and win ultimate knowledge. Depending on his works, a man may be reincarnated as a prince or a panda. Therefore, all life is sacred. A true Buddhist should not kill a fly or step on an insect because-literally-it may be somebody's grandmother...
...Tibet. Mother also told Hermione that she had four large, flat feet, a short tail, a white body, black legs, black ears, and black circles about her eyes. In short, Hermione was (according to her mother) a perfect ailuropoda melanoleucos and at the very same time a Giant Panda...
...seems a shame that Hermione should be so thwarted, that Mr. Dulles should be so mean, and that the United States should not have a single solitary Giant Panda, especially Hermione Esmerelda...
...Susie, the 360-lb. giant panda which had been the idol of zoo-going New York moppets, died of causes unknown at the Bronx Zoo, Susie's home for ten of her eleven years, leaving only two of her species (at Chicago and St. Louis) in captivity. Susie will be hard to replace; giant pandas live in western Szechwan in Red China...