Apparently the giant panda does not hibernate like the bears, but continues to go abroad throughout he winter. The Chinese name for this strange creature is Pei Shung (pronounced bai-soong) which mens "white bear.
The giant panda was originally discovered in 1876 by Lazarist missionary Armaude David in the little Principality of Mupin on the Chinese-Tibetan border north-west of Chengtu. For many decades after its discovery no white man set eyes on this strange animal, but in 1914 the members of a German expedition securea specimens, including a live one, which, however, died. Then in 1928 the Roosevelt brothers, Hermit and Theodore, o an expedition № purpose of hooting a giant panda. In this they were successful thus being able th mike the claim that they were the first white men to shoot one of these rare animals.
After them came several expeditions, and several more white sportsmen actually shot giant pandas. But none secured a living specimen till Mrs. Ruth Harkness, widow of the late Mr, W. H. H: rkness, made her sensational coup a year and a half ago, thus fulfilling the obj her husband's expedition to in China 1935
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