#ailurus fulgens

[kness]

Red panda appreciation post

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

This animal was requested!

[redpandazine]

Happy International Red Panda Day 2024!

Photo: A Red Panda at Zoo Linz in Austria. 📆 March 13, 2021 📷 Red Pandazine

[hazelspandapalace]

She is polite

[aticketplz]

そんな高いところでよく寝られるネェ！！！

@ズーラシア

What a tall pillow!!!

@Zoorasia

[trans-duckling]

Happy International Red Panda Day!

Just so you all don't forget I'm a biologist that likes to take photos of the animals I work with and meet ;)

Red panda / Panda rojo / Ailurus fulgens

[snototter]

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

by safi kok

[hellfyreroz]

I always lie when I say I don’t have favourites. It’s always him

[labradoritedreams]

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

[iris-polaris]

interviewed some red pandas today

[kness]

They want to help!

*available*

[lunasong365]

Red panda, Miller Park Zoo, Bloomington, IL.

[redpandazine]

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

[aticketplz]

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

[ognimdo2002]

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.

[mirtadraws]

sketching animals in Dublin Zoo.

overheard conversation:

Child: "What are they made of?"

Mom: "They're made of monkey."