Volume 32, Number 13 · August 15, 1985
Mysteries of the Panda
By Stephen Jay Gould
The Giant Pandas of Wolong
by George B. Schaller, by Hu Jinchu, by Pan Wenshi, by Zhu Jing
University of Chicago Press, 298 pp., $25.00
Many animals, including Jesse James, Alexander the Great, and the giant panda, must, Janus-like, show two faces to the world—one required by legend, the other given by nature. The hortatory faces are, in sequence, honest (in the largest sense), virtuous, and cuddly; the natural visages tend to thievery, rapacity, and ennui.
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