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hazelspandapalace · 3 months

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She is polite

#red panda #red pandas #ailurus fulgens

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aticketplz · 11 months

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邪魔じゃないのかな？いいならいいけど…

@浜松市動物園

Isn't that in the way? Then it's fine...

@Hamamatsu City Zoo

#浜松市動物園 #レッサーパンダ #red panda #mammal #Ailurus fulgens

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redpandazine · 2 months

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Red Pandas at Zoo Linz in Austria. 📆 February 24, 2024 📷 Red Pandazine

#red panda #panda rojo #ailurus fulgens #kleiner panda #panda roux #lesser panda #roter panda #panda rosso #animal #redpanda #linz #austria #red pandas #wah

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snototter · 9 months

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A pair of red pandas (Ailurus fulgens) in Rotterdam Zoo, The Netherlands

by safi kok

#red panda #ailurus fulgens #ailurus #ailuridae #carnivora #mammalia #chordata #captive animal #rotterdam zoo

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iris-polaris · 8 months

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🟪 ANIMAL OF THE DAY: red panda (Ailurus fulgens). native to China. despite its name, NOT related to your typical panda, though it has a false "thumb" like panders to eat those tasty-ass bamboo Big Macs. it is probably kin to raccoons weasels etc but Experts are debatin'.

happy int'l red panda day for those who Celebrate. "Ailurus fulgens" basically means Bright Cat by the way. are there any honest mammals out there WORTHY of a whole day dedicated just to Them? sources say no

#red panda #red pandas #ailurus fulgens #animal #animals #animal facts #bear of the ice

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labradoritedreams · 2 months

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Frank, resident red panda at the Mill Mountain Zoo, enjoying his breakfast (February 2024).

#red panda #ailurus fulgens #southern life #my photo #i put a spell on queue

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lunasong365 · 4 months

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Red panda, Miller Park Zoo, Bloomington, IL.

#red panda #ailurus fulgens

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travellingstranger · 21 days

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Sweetness.

Tierpark Berlin

Berlin, Germany

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ognimdo2002 · 8 months

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Red Panda – Red Cuddler

The Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens), or Lesser Panda, is one of the species of carnivorans found in mountainous forests from Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent. Later, DNA analysis suggested that red pandas might belong in the bear family. However, later genetic research placed red pandas in their own family: Ailuridae.

Distribution and Habitat

The red panda lives in Nepal, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China, the Indian states of Sikkim, West Bengal, and Arunachal Pradesh, Bhutan, southern Tibet, and northern Myanmar. The red panda's maximum global habitat size has been calculated to be 47,100 km2 (18,200 sq mi). This habitat is in the Himalayas' moderate climate zone, where the average annual temperature ranges from 18 to 24 °C (64 to 75 °F). It has been observed at elevations between 2,000 and 4,300 meters (6,600 and 14,100 feet) throughout this range. The red panda prefers steep slopes with dense bamboo cover close to water sources. It lives in temperate broadleaf and mixed forests as well as coniferous forests. It is mostly arboreal and solitary. In addition to fruits and blooms, it primarily eats bamboo shoots and leaves.

Conservation

The species has been listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2015. It is protected in all range countries. Their main risks include poaching, human meddling, and habitat loss and degradation. The total number of red pandas has reportedly decreased over the past two decades by 40%, according to researchers.

Lore

This is the only member of the Ailuridae family; the family consists of the red panda (the sole living representative) and its extinct relatives. The red panda was first formally described in 1825. The two currently recognized subspecies, the Himalayan and the Chinese red panda, genetically diverged about 250,000 years ago. The red panda's place on the evolutionary tree has been debated, but modern genetic evidence places it in close affinity with raccoons, weasels, and skunks. It is not closely related to the giant panda, which is a bear, though both possess elongated wrist bones, or "false thumbs," used for grasping bamboo. The evolutionary lineage of the red panda (Ailuridae) stretches back around 25 to 18 million years, as indicated by extinct fossil relatives found in Eurasia and North America.

The red panda's role in the culture and folklore of local people is limited. A drawing of a red panda exists on a 13th-century Chinese scroll. In Nepal's Taplejung District, red panda claws are used for treating epilepsy; its skin is used in rituals for treating sick people, making hats, scarecrows and decorating houses. In China, the fur is used for local cultural ceremonies. At weddings, the bridegroom traditionally carries the hide. Hats made of red panda tails are also used by local newlyweds as a "good-luck charm".

In western Nepal, Magar shamans use its skin and fur in their ritual dresses and believe that it protects against evil spirits. People in central Bhutan consider red pandas to be reincarnations of Buddhist monks. Some tribal people in northeast India and the Yi people believe that it brings good luck to wear red panda tails or hats made of its fur.

In Turning Red, the story follows Meilin "Mei" Lee, a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian student who transforms into a giant red panda when she experiences any strong emotion due to a hereditary curse from her ancestor in ancient China. Sun Yee was the ancestress of the main protagonists, and she was the poet and the member of a hybrid from the Assassin Order and Templar Order, the real enemies of Conservationist Hunters, the peacekeepers of planet Earth that either hunt or preserve creatures or people from extinction.

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Red

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/red-panda

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/red-panda-bear-and-more-red-panda-facts#:~:text=Red%20pandas%20were%20first%20described,in%20their%20own%20family%3A%20Ailuridae.

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aticketplz · 8 months

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どした？

@豊橋動植物公園

What's up?

@Toyohashi Zoo & Botanical Park

#豊橋動植物公園 #mammal #red panda #Ailurus fulgens #レッサーパンダ #Lesser panda

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redpandazine · 11 months

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Red Panda at Darjeeling Zoo, India.

Photo: Soumyojit Sinha/Unsplash

#red panda #panda rojo #ailurus fulgens #panda roux #kleiner panda #roter panda #lesser panda #panda rosso #animal #redpanda #red pandas #darjeeling #zoos

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mirtadraws · 1 year

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sketching animals in Dublin Zoo.

overheard conversation:

Child: "What are they made of?"

Mom: "They're made of monkey."

#dublin zoo #zoo #life drawing #zoo drawing #animals and nature #Choloepus didactylus #Pithecia pithecia #Ailurus fulgens #Ceratotherium simum #Spheniscus Humboldti #Chelonoidis carbonarius #Gallinula chloropus

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sitting-on-me-bum · 2 years

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A red panda or lesser panda (Ailurus fulgens) in the humid montane mixed forest in Labahe national nature reserve (Sichuan, China)

Actually not a panda but related to raccoons and coatis, the Red panda used to live in broadleaf and mixed forests all along the Himalayas but has been hunted to local extinction in many areas. Its fur is prized for ceremonial local dress and the international fur market. In recent years numbers have recovered thanks to a wide hunting ban, reforestation programmes, increased areas for nature reserves and a government clampdown on illegal trade in wildlife species.

Photograph: Staffan Widstrand/Naturepl.com/LDY Agency

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