Ailuropoda melanoleuca melanoleuca

The Giant Panda is an infamous species of bear, and the famous subspecies of panda. Wild Giant Pandas currently only live in the mountainous bamboo forests of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu. They are one of the National animals of China, the other being the Chinese Dragon. It is infamous due to environmental programs spreading awareness to keep it from extinction. Since then it has had a very popular presence. It is considered to be particularly adorable, with its pattern becoming loved and even being featured on other animals: for example, dogs dyed to the coloration, or a horse in a video game featuring it's black and white patterns. It's near extinction and cuteness has given it a reputation of needing to be rescued. This resulted in many captive programs trying to rescue the panda from dying out. However, they have a hard time breeding. One part of it is due to the small breeding time given, just a few days, but they also exhibit a general disinterest in captivity. This has lead to breeders showing pandas films of pandas mating (panda pornography) in order to get them to propagate. They have one or two cubs, but reject the second cub if one is born. In captivity the second cub is almost always rescued and raised by a human or an animal surrogate given by the human.

Religion & Impact
It is the mascot for the World Wildlife Fund.