StatsDIET:
Red pandas primarily eat bamboo leaves as well as berries, blossoms, bird eggs, and various plants' small leaves. Their broad teeth and strong jaws allow them to chew bamboo's tough leaves and stalks. They also have a small, bony projection on their wrists that helps them grip bamboo stalks. Giant pandas also have this thumb-like adaptation. |
DESCRIPTION:
Red pandas, which resemble raccoons, are about 42 inches long, including a long, bushy tail. They weigh between seven and 14 pounds. Their red-and-white markings blend in with the red mosses and white lichens that grow on the trees in which they live. Their soft, dense fur covers their entire body—even the soles of their feet. Red pandas use their long, bushy tails to balance when they're in trees. They also cover themselves with their tails in winter.
Scientific Name: Ailurus Fulgen
Red pandas, which resemble raccoons, are about 42 inches long, including a long, bushy tail. They weigh between seven and 14 pounds. Their red-and-white markings blend in with the red mosses and white lichens that grow on the trees in which they live. Their soft, dense fur covers their entire body—even the soles of their feet. Red pandas use their long, bushy tails to balance when they're in trees. They also cover themselves with their tails in winter.
Scientific Name: Ailurus Fulgen
CONSERVATION:
In 1994 their status with the IUCN was vulnerable. In 1996, their status was bumped up to endangered. There are only suspected to be about 2500 adult red pandas left in the wild. REPRODUCTION:
After a gestation of about 134 days, litters of one to four young are born. Young stay in the nest for about 90 days, remain close to their mother until the next mating season begins, and reach adult size at about 12 months. Adult red pandas lead solitary lives. |
To help the red panda there are many clinics, facilities, and zoos that are reliably continuing to maintain self-sustaining populations. There is also a special group named forest guardians who help to protect the red pandas from anything that causes danger to them. If people would stop burning down forests and going hunting it would help decrease the chances of the red panda becoming extinct. DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT:
Red pandas live in the cool temperate bamboo forests in Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces in China, in the Himalayas, and in Myanmar. They share part of their range with giant pandas. |
Sources:
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/AsiaTrail/RedPanda/factsheet.cfm
http://greenanswers.com/question/when-did-red-panda-become/
http://forgifs.com/gallery/v/Red-pandas-play-wrestling.gif.html
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