“We are neither bears nor squirrels,” that is what my mother told me when I was little. Red pandas like us may do get to fool ordinary humans into thinking we are smaller cousins of our more popular namesakes, the giant pandas, or that we are the same as raccoons and squirrels, but we are certainly unique. I, for one, can attest that being named as Ailurus fulgens by smarter humans calling themselves as biologists, we are certainly unlike any other animal out there (Flynn et al. 190-199).
And surely, we are different as we claim to be, not
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