Red Panda

Ahoy, mates!

In this post, I'm supposed to post a report about a kind of animal or plant. 

Well, I decided to report about an animal called the RED PANDA. Because it's cute. End of story.

Enough with the chit-chat and let's go to the main topic.

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Red Panda

Red Panda or Ailurus fulgens is a kind of arboreal mammals or a mammals that spends most of its time on trees. Even if its name is Red Panda, it is actually closer to a raccoon than to a black and white giant panda. Red Panda's size is about the same as a domestic cat.

Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Carnivore

Family: Ailuridae

Genus: Ailurus

Spesies: Ailurus fulgens/Red Panda

To be noted that even though the order is stated as carnivore, Red Panda is in fact an omnivore. It is listed as a carnivore because its physical features resembles that of a carnivore.

About

Red Panda is native to Eastern Himalaya and Southwest China. It is, as stated before, an omnivore that mainly feeds on bamboos, thus earning the name Panda. The name came from a Nepal word called Ponyo which means bamboo eater.

Red Panda is solitary except for mating season. It is both nocturnal (active and night) and also crepuscular (active at dawn and dusk).

Right now, Red Panda is considered as Vulnerable by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and is continuously decreasing because of deforestation.

There are 2 sub-species of Red Panda:

1. Western Red Panda (Ailurus fulgen fulgens)

The Western Red Panda lives in Nepal, Assam, Sikkim, and Bhutan. It has red-brown fur with black and white in some parts of its body.

2. Styani's Red Panda (Ailurus fulgen styani)

                                                      

Styani's Red Panda lives in Southern China and Northern Burma. It is bigger than the Western Red Panda. It also has more black fur on its body and a more robust teeth.

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-Dian