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This is untrue: There is indeed a subspecies of panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca qinlingensis), but curiously despite the size of this bear, it was only discovered in 1959

>Another clue that pandas aren't real: Almost every Chinese animal known since antiquity has a single character associated with it: 象 for elephant, 猴 for monkey, 鱷 for crocodile, and so on. But Panda is 貓熊, which simply is the characters for 'bear' and 'cat' put together. Usually, only animals introduced in later dynasties such as Ming and Qing have such compound names, like giraffes and hummingbirds