imaginarycircus: HELLO. I SHALL ADORABLY SLICE YOU IN TWO WITH…
Thursday, June 26th, 2014HELLO. I SHALL ADORABLY SLICE YOU IN TWO WITH MY WEE PAWS. I AM BEAR. CHOMP.
Here I was about to correct you, based on the old-school pedantry that “actually, pandas are not bears.” But I was wrong! At least, the first google result for “are pandas bears?” asserts that giant pandas (which this appears to be the adorable baby fun-sized version of) are in fact (drumroll) bears! (Though lesser pandas, of the adorable gif I’ve seen at least 6 times in my Tumblr dash, are indeed more-closely related to raccoons. So chastened pedants can take comfort in that.)
Since genetic sequencing has allowed taxonomists to move beyond morphological similarities to assessing relatedness based on shared DNA, all kinds of comeuppances have been coming up.
So. There it is. What a time to be alive.
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