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Mott the Hoople said:
Pandas aren't bears. Neither are Koalas.
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To answer your question, for a long time people have disagreed about whether ginat pandas and red pandas were bears or raccoons. Until some new technology came along, they mostly had to look at bones and teeth. Scientists have used DNA to find out that the giant panda is more closely related to the other bears than to the raccoons.
Giant pandas are in the family Ursidae with the seven other bear species. Raccoons are in the family Procyonidae, along with ring-tails and coatis. The bear family and raccoon family are closely related.

http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=358

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Seahawk said:
To answer your question, for a long time people have disagreed about whether ginat pandas and red pandas were bears or raccoons. Until some new technology came along, they mostly had to look at bones and teeth. Scientists have used DNA to find out that the giant panda is more closely related to the other bears than to the raccoons.
Giant pandas are in the family Ursidae with the seven other bear species. Raccoons are in the family Procyonidae, along with ring-tails and coatis. The bear family and raccoon family are closely related.

http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=358

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All I know is that I'm not afraid of raccoons when I encounter them outside. Pandas would cause me some alarm.
 
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