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Show Woolly Panda From Tibet Difficult Creature to Keep Fortunate indeed is the zoo keeper keep-er who is able to add to his collection collec-tion the great, or short-tailed, panda pan-da one of the world's rarest animals. ani-mals. Even in their native land of Tibet, pandas are extremely scarce, and prior to the year 1869, when ex plorers hrst saw a sny specimen, these peculiar little bear-like creatures crea-tures were unknown outside the limited boundaries of their native land. , So delicately attuned is the panda to its Tibetan surroundings that it is difficult to keep in captivity, cap-tivity, and only a few of the ani- mals are on display in zoological parks. There are but four in the United States; one in New York, one in Brookfield (111.) zoo, and two in St. Louis. |