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The men shared the same surname, and both sought to make their own mark on history apart from their father, former President Theodore Roosevelt. Like their world-famous father, Ted and Kermit Roosevelt loved hunting and exploring, and they thought their ticket to recognition as world-class explorers would be in capturing the one large mammal no other expedition in the world ever had: the giant panda bear.

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