Assertion: giant panda | /r/RelatedTo | raccoon
Facets:
value: more closely
type: DEGREE
value: both
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: scientists argued that the giant panda and the red panda which share many characteristics were both more closely related to raccoons than bears.
text: Although the Giant Panda looks like a bear, it is more closely related to the raccoon.
text: For a long time, scientists weren’t sure if giant pandas were bears or perhaps more closely related to raccoons.
text: For a long time, scientists weren’t sure if giant pandas were bears or perhaps more closely related to raccoons.
text: For a long time, it was unknown whether giant pandas were more closely related to bears or raccoons, or if they belonged in another group altogether.
text: Some workers, however, have argued that the giant panda is more closely related to raccoons than bears, others have placed it in a group of their own within a larger group of carnivorans (the Arctoidea) containing both bears and raccoons.