The red panda is related to the Giant Panda.
In fact, the red panda is not a panda at all! While previously believed to be the member of raccoon or bear families, it is now classified as the only member of the Ailurus genus.
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Dirk A Schnarr
Habitat and Behavior
The red panda shares the giant panda's rainy, high-altitude forest habitat, but has a wider range. Red pandas live in the mountains of Nepal and northern Myanmar (Burma), as well as in central China.
These animals spend most of their lives in trees and even sleep aloft. When foraging, they are most active at night as well as in the gloaming hours of dusk and dawn.
Red pandas have a taste for bamboo but, unlike their larger relatives, they eat many other foods as well—fruit, acorns, roots, and eggs. Like giant pandas, they have an extended wrist bone that functions almost like a thumb and greatly aids their grip.
Breeding and Population
They are shy and solitary except when mating. Females give birth in the spring and summer, typically to one to four young. Young red pandas remain in their nests for about 90 days, during which time their mother cares for them. (Males take little or no interest in their offspring.)
The red panda has given scientists taxonomic fits. It has been classified as a relative of the giant panda, and also of the raccoon, with which it shares a ringed tail. Currently, red pandas are considered members of their own unique family—the Ailuridae.
Red pandas are an at-risk species, victims of deforestation. Their natural space is shrinking as more and more forests are destroyed by logging and the spread of agriculture.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/r/red-panda/
John W Shreve
A panda walks into a restaurant, eats a meal, fires a pistol into the air, and walks towards the exit.
A waiter stops him and asks, "Why did you do that?" The panda produced a book about mammals and said, "Look it up."
The waiter read, "Panda: A bear found in south central China. Eats shoots and leaves."
Recalled from "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves," a humorous book about grammar.
Bob Carr
You could argue that all mammals are related.
Roger G. Graham
For all the people that complain true/false questions are always true
Omar Mung
Suzanne Beer, not good either.&
elizawheeler
John W Shreve, LOL
Lawanta
Very poor explanation... SHAME on Troian! 😠
Helga U. Williams
Wow, quiz player below certainly wrote a wonderful narrative on the subject!
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catmom
John W Shreve, thx. That was funny. I loved it.
Chris Brown
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.
tbear
John W Shreve, 😊 😊 😊 😊 ! Thanks for the chuckle!😊
tbear
tesla alset, 👍 😊
Suzanne Beer
6/10 not bad
Jacky Pierce Friedman
Red Pandas are so cute and funny. Love watching videos of them.
Isabel Laing
Not related.
Cari G.
Dirk A Schnarr, thank you for filling in the blanks!
nostring
The red panda has given scientists taxonomic fits. It has been classified as a relative of the giant panda, and also of the raccoon, with which it shares a ringed tail. Currently, red pandas are considered members of their own unique family—the Ailuridae. Red pandas are an at-risk species, victims of deforestation