What is a giant panda?: A query about its place among the ursidae

Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 38-44

  Hagey, Lee R ^a   Edith, MacDonald ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^b San Diego Zoo ^*  (United States)

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