Search results
Red pandas live in the Eastern Himalayas, where they spend most of their time in trees. They depend on their long, bushy tails for balance and warmth. They face threats from habitat loss, human impact, and climate change. WWF works with local communities to protect their habitat and help them survive.
Mar 11, 2024 · Learn about the red panda, a reddish brown, long-tailed mammal that lives in the mountain forests of the Himalayas and adjacent areas of eastern Asia. Find out its characteristics, behavior, diet, and conservation status.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Red pandas are endangered animals that mainly stay in temperate forests of the Eastern Himalayas. They are herbivores that use their long, bushy tails for balance and warmth. Learn about their threats, conservation efforts and how you can help from WWF.
- Red Panda Physical Characteristics
- Red Panda Habitat
- Red Panda Diet
- Red Panda Social Behaviour
- Red Panda Reproduction
- Red Panda Conservation Status
Red pandas have soft, dense fur that protects them from cool temperatures. The fur on the upper side of the animal is reddish-brown in color while its underside and legs are black. The soles of the Red Pandas feet are covered with white fur. The Red Pandas compact face and the borders around the ears are primarily white. The red panda has reddish b...
Red pandas live in remote mountainous areas of the Himalayas in dense forest and bamboo thickets. The forests have a dense under story of bamboo and small trees. Red panda habitat temperatures usually fall between 10 – 25 degrees centigrade. Red pandas also inhibit elevation ranges from 6,000 – 12,000 feet.
Just like the giant panda, the red panda is a bamboo eater and its diet is mainly bamboo. 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...
The Red panda is nocturnal and is mostly active in the early morning and late afternoon spending most of the day resting in trees conserving their energy as their bamboo diet has a low energy content. Red pandas are normally solitary creatures, however, they form pairs in the breeding season. Red pandas appear to be territorial. Red pandas use glan...
The gestation period of the female red panda is about 3 months. During this time, the female will make a nest out of grass and twigs in either a hollow tree or rock crevasse. Up to 3 newborn cubs are then delivered into the nest. Breeding season occurs from mid-January to early March and cubs are usually born between mid-May and mid-July. Red panda...
Red Pandas are listed as endangered by IUCNand Appendix II under CITES. The major threats to the red pandasare loss of habitat due to deforestation and forest fragmentation. Red Pandas are often killed for their coats to make fur hats and clothes. Because of the growing human population in China, Red Panda habitatsare being cleared to build houses....
Red pandas live in the rainy mountain forests of Nepal, India, Bhutan, and central China. They are endangered by habitat loss, predators, and diseases. They are not bears, but belong to their own unique family and genus. They have a diet of bamboo and other plants, and communicate with their tails.
Apr 5, 2019 · Learn about the red panda, a small mammal with a lush red coat, a bushy tail, and a masked face. Find out where it lives, what it eats, how it behaves, and why it is endangered.