Westerners first learned of them in 1869 when French missionary Armand David, while in China, laid eyes on a distinctive black-and-white ... home the first panda shot by white men for the museum ...
HONG KONG — In Hong Kong, it’s pandas, pandas, everywhere. About 2,500 giant panda sculptures are on display around Hong Kong as the Chinese territory hopes to capitalize on its growing panda ...
The falsehoods, which researchers say were amplified by clout-chasing influencers, have cast a shadow on Beijing’s “panda diplomacy,” the decades-old practice of gifting or loaning the bears ...