A red pandas diet is 98% bamboo, with the animals eating 20 to 30 percent of their body weight in bamboo. Nicknamed ‘red bear-cat’, red pandas sleep for two-thirds of the day, up to 17 hours.

Adelaide Zoo is in mourning after its only female red panda died after a short illness. The zoo said five-year-old Mishry’s ...

Both species live in Eastern Asia, in high-altitude, temperate forest. Learn more ... sounds that red pandas can make A red panda chewing on a small piece of bamboo. Katie Fancher, Smithsonian ...

the two star pandas “Zhuangmei” (strong girl) and “Aoyun” (Olympics) who had participated in the World Expo 2010 Shanghai were permanently settled in Nanshan Bamboo Forest. In order to enrich the ...

The red panda is a charismatic ... Thickets of bamboo, dense and nearly impenetrable, stood as a formidable barrier as we pressed on through the forest. The mountain air was thin, each breath ...

“Mishry was the first red panda to venture into the overhead tunnels when they were opened in Bamboo Forest and she has curiously peered at many zoo-goers from them ever since. Mishry and zookeeper ...

Red pandas and giant pandas ... color contrast in giant pandas is believed to help them camouflage in their bamboo forest habitat. Both species are visually distinct, but their colorations ...

The giant panda was once widespread throughout southern and eastern China, as well as neighbouring Myanmar and northern Vietnam. But due to expanding human populations and development, the species is ...

“Mishry was the first red panda to venture into the overhead tunnels when they were opened in Bamboo Forest and she has curiously peered at many zoo-goers from them ever since. Mishry and ...

Think of nature and we think of color: a red sunset, a green forest ... and a taste for bamboo. Something else it shares is that it is a threatened species. The red panda population has declined ...

Blazes are spreading unchecked in Dolakha, Sindhupalchok and Manang forests. Wildlife and settlements under threat.