Rare among even the rarest of large wild animals is the giant panda, and rarer still is the sight of its young. Indeed, until the Dolan-West expedition of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia penetrated to the home of these strange bear-like creatures that are not bears, in Szechuan Province, in the mountainous West of China, no white men had ever seen a panda cub.
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