Pandas were virtually unknown outside China until 1869 when Pere Jean Pierre Armand David described one which had been shot by hunters in Ya'an, Sichuan province, triggering more than a century of ...

The specimen of a geometrid moth made by Priest Fr Jean Pierre Armand David in Sichuan province in 1870. [Photo by Gao Erqiang/China Daily ...

Baoxing county in Sichuan province is inextricably linked by panda enthusiasts to Jean Pierre Armand David, a French priest. A naturalist at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, David ...

Twenty Chinese hikers spent 10 days following in the footsteps of Pere Jean Pierre Armand David, who described a giant panda that had been shot by hunters in Ya'an, Sichuan Province, in 1869.

Some 155 years ago, Pierre Armand David, a French Catholic priest, zoologist and botanist, resided in the Dengchigou Catholic Church for some time.

Pere David's deer are named after the French Jesuit Pere Armand David who spotted them in China in 1865 A deer fawn, once extinct in the wild, has been born at a safari park.