panda trivia and typing

courtesy of panda correspondent ryan. lack-of-camera certainly can't stop him from contributing. he is a powerhouse!

ryan writes:
Did you know that in Chinese, "panda" (熊貓 / xióng māo) means bear-cat?

Bear Cat

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EDIT: that mess of symbols above is two pandas when formatted correctly in my gmail and in the post-forming, but looks like this on actual blog. apologies!!