This extraordinary discovery, however, has thrown grave doubts upon the gender of the other young giant pandas at present' in the United States. Recently, it will be remembered, one of these little animals that had already crashed into ne paper headlines because it was reported to have attacked and bitten the pilot of the aeroplane on which it was being transported {ror San Francisco to New York, again made world news when it determinedly resisted all efforts on the part of the Bronx Zoo authorities to ascertain its sex, for which it could hardly be blamed.
But the interesting point is that apparently in the immature stage it is difficult, not to say impossible, to determine the sex of the giant panda. This of course, explains the reason why so many females were reported io have been captured, which suggested that the sex-ratio amongst ut pandas was something like five to one, worse, even, than, the deplorable state of affairs said to have existed in England in the late Victorian era, which led to the well known song "Three Women to every Man."
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