About Red Pandas

 

Ever wondered why pandanda pandas don't look like the typical black and white pandas that live in china? That's because pandanda panda's are "Red Pandas" Here's some information on them and how they're similar to their cusin, the panda bear. (The following information below has been borrowed from the National Geographic.)

The red panda is dwarfed by the black-and-white giant that shares its name. These pandas typically grow to the size of a house cat, though their big, bushy tails add an additional 18 inches (46 centimeters). The pandas use their ringed tails as wraparound blankets in the chilly mountain heights.
The red panda shares the giant panda's rainy, high-altitude forest habitat, but has a wider range. Red pandas live in the mountains of Nepal and northern Myanmar (Burma), as well as in central China.
These animals spend most of their lives in trees and even sleep aloft. When foraging, they are most active at night as well as in the gloaming hours of dusk and dawn.
Red pandas have a taste for bamboo but, unlike their larger relatives, they eat many other foods as well—fruit, acorns, roots, and eggs. Like giant pandas, they have an extended wrist bone that functions almost like a thumb and greatly aids their grip.
They are shy and solitary except when mating. Females give birth in the spring and summer, typically to one to four young. Young red pandas remain in their nests for about 90 days, during which time their mother cares for them. (Males take little or no interest in their offspring.)
The red panda has given scientists taxonomic fits. It has been classified as a relative of the giant panda, and also of the raccoon, with which it shares a ringed tail. Currently, red pandas are considered members of their own unique family—the Ailuridae.
Red pandas are endangered, victims of deforestation. Their natural space is shrinking as more and more forests are destroyed by logging and the spread of agriculture.
Who knows, in the future Pandanda may be the only place where you'll be able to see red pandas walking around! If you guys would like to learn more about red pandas and your thirst for knowledge about these little critters hasn't been fulfilled, you can visit these sites below :)
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/red-panda.html
http://www.animalinfo.org/species/carnivor/ailufulg.htm
-Dogy