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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 4825784, member: 37"] His team is heading to the BIG. It's obvious he would have been better off if UCLA joined the church league. At least he's at a university with a mascot that has an apt description for an animal. What's Cincinnati's excuse? [I]What is a Bearcat mascot? The word first appeared in print circa 1889 as a synonym for the giant panda. "Bearcat" is a simple translation of the Chinese word for panda-xiong mao-which means "bear-cat." The Binturong (Arctictis binturong) is a species of the family Viverridae, which includes the civets and genets. Is a bearcat a bear or a cat? Binturongs are also called bearcats, but that name is rather misleading since they are not related to bears OR cats. Instead, they are related to civets and fossas but look more like gigantic dust mops and smell like a freshly made batch of popcorn![/I] [/QUOTE]