In any case, pandas came to the Bronx Zoo, mainly through the efforts of Ed Kotch, the mayor. And when he went to China, he felt he would be helping the zoo and helping the panda by arranging a loan and he did. And in the event, he was not far wrong because the panda did bring in a great many people. The panda has the remarkable burden of being neoteric. Most people aren’t going to know what I mean when I say neoteric, I mean, it is baby like. It’s face is foreshorten its eyes appear larger though it has little piggy eyes, and people like that sort of a vicinage on babies on puppies, on kittens. Babies, foreshorten faces, big eyes, small features. And the Panda takes that even to an adult stage, it’s a very famous situation and they do it more spectacularly than any other species on earth.
