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This was my first encounter with a red panda. It was every bit as gorgeous as I expected it to be. I suppose it's not surprising that I love red pandas because one of their common names is red cat-bear. :))
This photo was taken at the Panda Research Base in Chengdu, China. This panda was snoring while it enjoyed a nap in the tree - too funny.
Thought I'd share these beautiful screenshots of our Bao Bao courtesy of pdxwildlife
Just love climbing up to my deck
The red panda (Ailurus fulgens, lit. "shining cat"), is a small arboreal mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China and related to raccoons, skunks and weasels. For more info pls chk - Red panda
Lovely panda at San Diego Zoo
It eats 30 to 40 pounds of Bamboo. Each of panda keeps distance of 3 to 7 square miles away.
For those of you on the brink ...stills from Sandy G 's video today - our Bei giving lots of pleasure judging by the amount of ooohs and aahs heard in the background
actually, this was the reason i spent my holidays at shirahama. shirahama adventure world, an amusement park/zoo, currently have 7 panda bears including baby twins born in last december. this is "touhin" (i believe), the younger sister.
Giant Panda - Xiao Liwu : Mr Wu
just turned 2 years old and (Mother) Bai Yun.
The giant panda is a national treasure in China, and around the world. The Chinese call their beloved pandas large bear-cats.The giant panda has an insatiable appetite for bamboo. A typical animal eats half the day—a full 12 out of every 24 hours—and relieves itself dozens of times a day. It takes 28 pounds of bamboo to satisfy a giant panda's daily dietary needs. Pandas will sometimes eat birds or rodents as well.
Wild pandas live only in remote, mountainous regions in central China. These high bamboo forests are cool and wet—just as pandas like it.
Pandas are often seen eating in a relaxed sitting posture. They may appear sedentary, but they are skilled tree-climbers and efficient swimmers.
Giant pandas are solitary. They have a highly developed sense of smell that males use to avoid each other and to find females for mating in the spring. The infants are born blind, weigh only 5 ounces at birth and cannot crawl until they reach three months of age. They are born white, and develop their coloring later.
There are only about 1,000 giant pandas left in the wild. Perhaps 100 pandas live in zoos, where they are always among the most popular attractions. Much of what we know about pandas comes from study of these zoo animals, because their wild cousins are so rare and elusive. -National Geographic
-IUCN Red List: Pandas are listed as: endangered.
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Taken at: San Diego Zoo
(Father) Gao Gao, (Mother) Bai Yun,
(Son) Xiao Liwu aka= Mr Wu
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.
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.
Diet: 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.
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.
Conservation: Red pandas are listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species because of habitat loss. There are fewer than 2,500 adult red pandas.