CRES and the San Diego Zoo hope to take a prominent role in the effort to save the giant panda. This purchase of extra land will also be of immense value in helping save many other species of flora and fauna. Monetary resources generated in excess of the cost of exhibiting giant pandas at the San Diego Zoo will be expended on Zoological Society conservation programs for the giant panda as well as other endangered flora and fauna. This question has long been the subject of scientific hypothesis, or more accurately, wild speculation. George Schaller has advanced the best hypothesis to date, and it's the one that most other biologists favor.
Giant pandas are a solitary species and generally try to avoid one another.
Such a conspicucous coat may enable them to spot one another in their dense bamboo habitat, thereby avoid unwanted encounters. Another possibility is that the conspicuous coat facilitates their ability to find one ahother during the short breeding season. But a favorite part of Schaller's hypothesis is his explanation for the black eye patches and black ears. A very ancient instinct among vertebrates is the fear of two facing eyes. If someone is looking directly at you, then they may be about to attack.