Is a panda a raccoon?
–This is the correct answer, but I thought I might elaborate on it a little bit. Is the giant panda more like a bear or raccoon? They certainly LOOK bear-ish, but they have a few unusual features that led people to believe they were not a bear. After almost a century of debate, scientists were finally able to test the genes from pandas and determine that they actually are a species of bear. Pandas are the rarest of bears. They are found in a wilderness in China that continues to disappear due to human interference.