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A perfectly good panda and a very good boy, just a little dusty.
Really nice large: look at that sparkle in his eye!
At first glance Red Pandas look similar to racoons, having long, bushy tails, patterned with 12 alternating rich red and buff coloured rings.
They have mainly white faces, contrasting with the rest of their red coats, and red markings under each eye.
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Happy Panda Day to the best panda family in the world!
Screenshots of Tai, Bao, & Bei: by me
Tian: courtesy of SNZ
Mei: courtesy of Sandy G video
Giant Panda (Ailuropoda Melanoleuca) taken with sigma 50-500mm handheld.
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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.
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The panda's plight often makes me sad since these adorable creatures make life hard for themselves in their evolution, things like not hibernating and eating mainly large quantities of bamboo shots which have poor nutritional value.
However I was extremely happy to see a living one, since it was a childhood dream come true for me.
Taken at Rotterdam Zoo on a Trip with college, This for those who don't know is a beautiful little Red Panda.
Panda in San Diego Zoo, San Diego, California
Canon EOS 7D
Canon 24-105 mm L lens @ 97 mm
ISO 2500
Exposed at 1/320 @ f/5
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I gave this the black background Photoshop treatment that many of contacts convinced me is dramatic. This is the first giant panda I have ever seen. I was right giddy watching this animal feed. I will have other examples of panda's for the future,