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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_(Chinese_zoology)#Mo_giant_panda
Why do they lie about facts that are so easy to disprove?
I mean, it’s 4chan. It says (or at least it used to) that only a fool would take its stories as real right on the webpage
It's greentext so the pandas are fake and gay, that's why they need to be artificially inseminated.
Dammit, even the pandas are Yuri.
It's inescapable.
The prophecy has been fulfilled.
First mention by hhhhwhite people was in 1869, apparently. But mentioned in chinese texts as early as like 2000 years ago
...citations... to books... not broken links lol.
And on page 185, we find the exact text cited
https://www.scribd.com/document/485010568/Donald-Harper-2012-2013-The-Cultural-History-of-the-Giant-Panda-in-Early-China-pdf
For the mythical part, you're conflating Mo panda and mythical Mo chimera, which is confusing. Giant pandas are known to and commonly observed licking rocks, soil, and metal objects to supplement minerals missing from their diet of bamboo, so that's where iron eating comes from. The given ancient decriptions of them are consistent with a panda, but for some reason you've chosen not to quote those descriptions, instead crafting your own.
Sounds like a panda.
No clue what you mean by my link is "slightly off"
I'm following this exchange with steadily increasing fascination, still on the fence on whether Pandas exist.
I found a lead. Could help explain why pandas got so famous in China so recently. Taipei Times isn't a great source but it's late and I got excited. https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2009/02/08/2003435562
And this: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2151717-the-first-ancestors-of-giant-pandas-probably-lived-in-europe/
Say your library did, you would read this book in Classical Chinese? Or would you rely on a translation, probably published much later?
Here’s a digitization of the first one and the second one, including a picture of an edition of the work itself. I found it by googling the names of the works in the quoted section.
If that’s not sufficient, I suggest you ask at your local (or most local) university library.
you are doing god's work with the patience of a saint
That's not how citations work.
You'll notice under the "General References" section the full citation of the work.
Because the work is cited multiple times, it is appropriate to use a shortened citation, following the proper style according to the wikipedia guidelines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Shortened_footnotes
Here's a link to the Erya.