Giant panda in 1936: Su Lin / Harkness · 428

An American who took Su Lin out of China in 1936 -- a living-export story that predates modern loan contracts. Is captive breeding the wild recovery? Captive numbers rose. Wild recovery needs corridors (the national park idea) more than more cubs on camera. No. Ailurus is a different family. This atlas type is the giant panda only.

Giant panda is one of 24 types in this animals atlas. The pages treat it as a full system -- history, anatomy, operating principles, culture, icons, future pressure and market shape -- not a ranking of a best species. Scores compare the giant panda with the other 23 types on speed, intelligence, range, resilience, cultural impact and ecological role. They are relative editorial marks. Resilience high means more secure; low means threatened. Vulnerable after a 2016 downlist from Endangered; wild numbers remain a few thousand in fragmented Sichuan-Shaanxi-Gansu belts.

Seven chapters follow: origins, systems, how the animal works, cultural life, named icons, what conservation can still change, and how tourism, conflict, fisheries and parks move money. Giant panda is not a single postcard animal. It is a set of populations, subspecies and human rules inside the wildlife family of this atlas.