Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-06-10 | Page 15 | $10,000 Spent to Secure Pandora

Spent to Secure Pandora LJ v v'S S 'S a 9 h w J N b S 'S AS SALT LAKERS VIEWED BABY GIANT PANDA Sue Wieland and Dean Sage Jr with rare Tibetan animal Baby a Giant Panda Displayed To o Throng Gathered at Airport Animal Being eing Transported by by p Plane ane to New York Zoo Pauses in S. S L. L Although Pandora Panda produced some pandemonium among spectators at the airport Thursday night she herself belied her name With Asiatic squeaks and boredom bordering on sleepiness the baby giant panda being transported from the mountains of Tibet to the New York Bronx zoo allowed herself to be displayed to the some persons who were at the airport as Pandora Pandora arrived from San Francisco on a United Air Lines plane Her guardians Dr W. W Reid Blair director of the New York Zoological cal park and Dean Sage Jr trustee of the New York Zoological society said Pandora was much at ease at atthe atthe atthe the high reached by the transport plane for they were about equal to her natural habitat Spectators who promptly fell in inlove inlove inove love ove with th the woolly black and white panda were panda were relieved when Mr Sage explained that her species is not extinct although rare He said the giant pandas are scarce because they hey live in the almost inaccessible regions of the Tibetan mountains sometimes at feet altitude A species by themselves their nearest relatives are the the raccoons Looking much like a teddy bear and weighing 38 pounds Pandora was a heavy but warm bundle in the arms of Stewardess Sue Wieland who held her to be photographed This was possible only because Pandora Pandora Pandora Pan Pan- dora has a very low IQ and is still stil stilla a baby But if f she survives the sealevel sealevel sea- sea level evel climate of New York she will wil grow to the size of a brown bear and will weigh about pounds Pandora bec became me playful and be began began began be- be gan rea reaching hing f for r peoples people's faces with her her ler fat paws but Mr Sage soon bundled her into her cage where she promptly fell asleep The greatest difficulty will be to find a food suited to her said Mr Sage Her natural diet Is bamboo but jut we now have her eating a milk mill product with a ready cooked cereal and md honey The capture purchase price anc and transportation of of the animal anima amount to a cost of about he the the officials said