In March 1869, French naturalist Father Armand David (1826.9.7～1900.11.10 ), during a scientific investigation near the Dengchigou (Muping) Church in Baoxing County, Ya'an, Sichuan, China, they discovered traces of what the locals call white bears and flower bears. With the help of local hunters, he collected a specimen of a white bear on April 1. The fur color is black or white, and the bottom of the soles of the feet is hairy. It looks like a bear. This is a strange animal that he has never seen before. Its specimens and bones were shipped to France. After identification by Alphonse Miller Edwards, a scientist at the Paris Museum of Natural History, the "black and white bear" is a new species, named Ailuropoda melanoleuca (cat bear). The identification report was published in the 1869 "Museum of Natural History in Paris" Volume 5 of "New Document". From then on, the cat and panda living in the wilderness entered the vision of human civilization.
