[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. The Thunderbird may have been some extinct variety of NA condor, or may have been something else entirely. "Strange" magazine used a bunch of ink trying to locate the mysterious lost photo of a purported thunderbird that had been shot, and that wasn't even the bird itself (if such exists). The "thunder" part of the name came from the cry of the bird, which was loud, distinctive, and frightening.

The Giant Panda is often classified as a bear or relative of bears, while the Lesser or Red Panda is generally held to be a relative of the raccoon. :')

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