I have heard that pandas maul/kill so many peasants every year, but the Chinese gov’t suppresses the info because they want a certain image of the panda to prevail. I don’t know if that is an urban myth or what. They had the death penalty for killing a panda up until 1997, and you have to think that folks are running into more than ever, as the population explodes. They are large powerful animals, and they have attacked folks in zoos, but so have pretty much every large animal kept in zoos.
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