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A red panda's body is adapted for feeding on bamboo. Its front legs are shorter than its hind legs, giving it a waddling walk. Its curved claws are semi-retractable. Like the giant panda, the red panda has a false thumb extending from its wrist bone that aids in climbing. The red panda is one of only a few species able to rotate its ankles to.
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Red pandas share the giant panda's pseudo-thumb, a modified wrist bone used to grasp bamboo when feeding. Red pandas are the only living member of the Ailuridae family, and their taxonomic position has long been a subject of scientific debate.
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Introduction Red pandas live in the temperate forest zone of the Himalayan ecosystem between 2200 and 5000 metres (see Chapter 11 ). Their distribution is associated closely with temperate forests having bamboo thickets, which are the main diet of red pandas ( Figure 14.1 ).
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Pandas eat a lot of bamboo, even more than their red counterparts. While the diet of a red panda comprises about 95% bamboo, that of panda bears is made of 99% or more. While they can be considered fully vegetarian, if they have to, panda bears might also hunt for small rodents or eat other plants - especially if they do not have access to.
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The Red panda ( Ailurus fulgens) is a small mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. 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.
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The red panda ( Ailurus fulgens ), also known as the lesser panda, is a small mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. It has dense reddish-brown fur with a black belly and legs, white-lined ears, a mostly white muzzle and a ringed tail.
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In fall they eat roots, grass, fruits, acorns, and other small insects, bird eggs, and grubs. Pregnant red pandas are known to also eat birds, lizards, and small rodents. They drink at least once a day. Red Panda Adaptations
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Red pandas are nocturnal and often live alone, except during mating season or when they are raising young. Females are only fertile for a couple of days each year, giving red pandas a very short reproduction window. Once pregnant, they gestate for around 130 days and give birth to litters of one to four cubs. The mothers raise their young alone.
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The Red panda is a carnivore that has adapted to a highly specialized bamboo diet Bamboo leaves and shoots comprise 95% of diet Unlike the typical carnivore diet, bamboo is low in protein and fat, but high in fiber Other species adapted to a bamboo diet include Giant panda, Bamboo lemurs (3 species), Bamboo rats (3 species)
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It seems to do most of its feeding on the ground. It is nocturnal and may live alone, in pairs, or in family groups. The litters generally contain one or two young that are born in spring after a gestation period of about 130 days. The animal is gentle and easily tamed but usually resents being handled.
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All or most include feeding the pandas. Bolded entries seem to allow touch/petting if the pandas are cooperative. Please check with each zoo for current details. Some zoos may not allow you to take your own photos (e.g. they may take photos for you with their camera or with your camera or phone).
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Red pandas mainly eat bamboo — a grass that makes up about 98% of their diet. Like giant pandas, red pandas have a carnivore's digestive system, but they have evolved and adapted to primarily eat plants. In the wild red pandas are solitary and encounter predators.
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During summers, the red panda may feed on fruits, mushrooms, leaves, grasses, roots, fruits, lichens and acorns. Although considered herbivorous, the red panda will occasionally take birds eggs and it is speculated that they may eat mice and birds on occasions.
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3.8 % of body weight per feed). The amount to feed is recalculated at 3-4 days intervals based on body weight changes. As the animal ages the percentage of body weight fed per day is gradually reduced, e.g. at about one month old the panda is fed 20-25 % of its body weight per day, at 2 months old 16-18% per day and at 3 months old about 15%.