If you went on safari in Greenland, could you hire locals as polar-bearers?
*groan*
Brad
If I recall correctly, giant pandas were only recently (10 years or so ago) grouped with bears. The report I read said that though there are differences, there were more similarities. I think zoologists were tired of saying "we're not sure where they fit taxonomically", so they lumped them in with bears. So now, they're back to being panda bears.
There's a big movement in biology to look at the DNA sequences of pretty much everything and revise taxonomy based on the DNA connections (geneology) instead of based on appearances (phylogeny). It may result in some interesting rearrangements in how we consider things.
I think it's giant pandas that look beary much like Ursidae but are actually raccoons or lemurs or something like that.
Maybe Koalas? I know people at least used to refer to them as "Koala bears." Actually, they're marsupials, closer to Kangaroos and (gulp) Opossums.