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As an avid collector of mammalian tattoos, I imagined I would savour this volume.

However, in many respects it disappoints: firstly, in the small space given to the panda's true habitat. It seems to romanticise the panda to a certain degree, displaying it in comical, often ludicrously metropolitan environments (at one point a panda is pictured hailing a New York taxicab; at another, a panda is shown dealing cut-price suppositories outside a subway).

Secondly, the panda is often anthropomorphised, as the above examples would suggest. Anyone with even a basic level of anthropological know-how can see that for a number of reasons, pandas are unable to claim social security, as this book would have us believe.

Thirdly, the everyday life of the panda is often misrepresented, as in the illustration of a panda eating eucalyptus, which is eaten by koalas, not pandas.

Having said that, the book is redeemed by its humourous approach. By taking into account its many winning features (the panda gleefully nibbling a four-leaf clover with a gentle caress from its mother; the panda lost for words after being mugged, again, outside a subway), one can forget or at least forgive the many factual errors.

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