You Are Not Dead, Yet.

Père Armand David was a Jesuit missionary in China. On one of his encounters, he was giving a Panda skin and bones which he returned to Paris for study.

While known in China, no live panda had ever been seen in the west, and many became skeptical of the existence of pandas and some believed them to be mythical creatures.

Many decades later, in 1929 US president Teddy Roosevelt became the first westerner to shoot and kill a panda, ending the skepticism.

The panda is dead.