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1. The Red Panda
By: Carolyn Dean

2. Ailurus Fulgens
• A raccoon - like creature, not related to
the panda.
• Was grouped with raccoons up until
recently, but is now its own species.
• Located in South Eastern Himalayas
and Eastern Asia.
• The species is divided into 2 subspecies;
The Western and The Styan’s.

3. The Western
Red Panda

4. The Styan’s
Red Panda

5. Habitat
• Live at an altitude of 7,200 to 15,700 ft.
• Prefer temperatures of 50 to 77 degrees
Fahrenheit
• Prefer areas highly populated with old
trees to live in.
• Need areas copious with bamboo to eat.

6. Habitat

7. Behavior
• They are solitary and territorial.
• You will rarely find 2 or more pandas together,
unless they are mating.
• It cleans itself like a cat, marks its territory like
a dog, and eats with its hands like a human.
• To defend themselves, they will climb to high
ground, or stand on its hind legs like a human
to look bigger.

8. Behavior
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9. Diet
• Mainly feeds on bamboo.
• Is omniverous, and will sometimes eat
smaller mammals, birds, and
sometimes berries.
• They can’t digest cellulose, so they have
a low - calorie food intake that gives
them little energy to move. So they
mostly sleep and eat.

10. Reproduction
• During mating is the only time you will
see red panda adults together.
• Neither sex is monogamous, so both
have multiple mates during mating.
• The mother gives birth to 1 to 4 cubs,
and raises them all on her own.

11. Child - Rearing
• The babies are cleaned by their
mothers.
• Each red panda has its own natural
scent.
• The babies are raised in nests.
• Babies can see on their 18th day of life,
and are considered mature by the 90th
day of life.

12. Baby Red Pandas

13. Conservation
• There are only about 10,000 adult red
pandas in the wild.
• They are threatened by deforestation,
and are sometimes, but rarely poached.
• It is illegal to hunt red pandas, and
areas are set up for red pandas to live
and be safe.

14. Conservation

15. Domestication
• The red panda is about the size of a cat.
• There is a report of a man keeping one
as a pet.
• Scientists are now looking at breeding
them with the siberian fox in order to
domesticate them.

16. Domestication