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[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Similar to how a red panda isn't a panda or wild rice isn't rice or.... yeah there's a lot of these.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Panda bears were named after red pandas, both in Chinese and English.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So you're saying pandas aren't pandas?