Abstract
THE giant panda (Æuropus melanoleucus) is rather like a bear, with black spectacles, saddle, forearm, and quarters of dark brown, and the rest of the body white. He lives in steep bamboo jungle, on which he feeds, sleeps in a hollow tree, and ranks as a sahib because he does not cry when shot. No civilised man had ever seen him alive until the present authors tracked down an old male, with fatal results for the panda. Scarcely better known is the takin (Budocras taxicolor), half goat, half antelope. Very rare is the golden monkey. These and other rare species were the quest in a successful expedition, by the Bhamo route from Burma into the Chinese provinces of Yannan and Szechuan, penetrating a wild region to northward of the Yangtzekiang and leaving by way of Indo-China, a journey of about two thousand miles.
Trailing the Giant Panda.
By Theodore Roosevelt Kermit Roosevelt. Pp. xi + 278 + 33 plates. (New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.) 16s. net.
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Trailing the Giant Panda . Nature 124, 944 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124944b0
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