The giant panda,a shy inhabitant of the remote mountain of southern China,is probably the most beloved and least well know of all animals in the wild.The teddy bear of everyone's childhood,this animal is a frustrating mystery to zoologists. The Chinese name for the panda xiong-mao,which means "bear-cat". Zoologists agree that the animal is not a cat,but they cannot agree on what it is. Some say it is a bear others put it in the same family as the raccoon.