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Originally Posted by ottopilot
Giant Pandas are indeed bears and the smaller Red Panda is related to the raccoon. I was taught in high school that the giant panda was related to raccoons, not bears.
neat.
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I'll be damned. I thought for sure they were still procyonids, but following from Wikipedia to the O'Brien, Nash, Wildt, Bush & Benveniste article in Nature (September '85) and reading the abstract, yup, that's a bear alright.
Who'd'a thunk it.
That's my new larnin' for today.