Red Panda 1/31/2021
January 31 - Red Pandas!
These are a few pictures of Red Pandas.
The red panda is an endangered animal due to poaching, fragmentation, and inbreeding depression.
Before the black and white pandas, red pandas were just known as pandas.
There Habitat is located in Eastern Himalayas and South-western China.
Their life span is up to 8 years in the wildlife.
These critters would be classified as nocturnal because they are mostly active at night.
Red Pandas are the size of a cat.
Red Pandas are vegetarian Carnivores because they eat 97% bamboo, ut sometimes they eat small mammals, eggs, and flowers.
You might think that Firefox was based on a fox, but this web browser is based on a Red Panda.
Red Panda's have a false thumb also known as an extended wrist bone which has elaborated over the time they climb trees and eat bamboo.
These creatures can actually be adopted.
Their scientific name is Ailurus fulgens
Female Red Pandas can at least have 1-4 young and usually, they are twins.
These mammals usually reside solitary in trees.
Red Pandas not only have an adorable face, but the white face is almost luminescent and it can be used to help a Mother Red Panda spot its cubs in the dark. Their tear tracks get the sun out of their eyes.
The Red Panda's tail is used as a tail and pillow as they wrap themselves around it to fall into a deep sleep.