Pandas

Abstract

Pandas are comparatively unfamiliar animals because of rare opportunity of viewing them and their late discovery by the Scientific World. There are two species of Pandas, known to this date, viz., (I) Red Panda or commonly called Lesser Panda and (II) Giant Panda. Both the species were discovered in nineteenth century, but the former appeared on the scene about half a century earlier, and the vernucular name Panda, which originated from its native land-Eastern Himalayas and also later adopted by Western World, probably for the sake of brevity and easy pronounciation, was derived from the tie and dye pattern of its tail. The Giant Panda, though discovered later in entirely a different region and placed in a separate genus, was also called Panda due to its anatomical likeness to the Red Panda. The two Pandas are described here in order of their emergence from unknown existence.