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The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), also known as the lesser panda, is a small mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China.It has dense reddish-brown fur with a black belly and legs, white-lined ears, a mostly white muzzle and a ringed tail.
Herbivory is of extreme ecological importance and prevalence among insects.Perhaps one third (or 500,000) of all described species are herbivores. [4] Herbivorous insects are by far the most important animal pollinators, and constitute significant prey items for predatory animals, as well as acting as major parasites and predators of plants; parasitic species often induce the formation of galls.
Ailuridae is a family in the mammal order Carnivora.The family consists of the red panda (the sole living representative) and its extinct relatives.. Georges Cuvier first described Ailurus as belonging to the raccoon family in 1825; this classification has been controversial ever since. [1]
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Ailuridae, the red panda (and its extinct kin). Mephitidae , the skunks and stink badgers . Mustelidae , the weasel (mustelid) family, including new- and old-world badgers , ferrets and polecats , fishers , grisons and ratels , martens and sables , minks , river and sea otters , stoats and ermines , tayras and wolverines .
The closest candidate is the Nepali word ponya, possibly referring to the adapted wrist bone of the red panda, which is native to Nepal. In many older sources, the name "panda" or "common panda" refers to the red panda (Ailurus fulgens), [4] which was described some 40 years earlier and over that period was the only animal known as a panda. [5]
Additionally, there were two red-eyed squirrels, two bats, two cotton-top monkeys, one fish tiger, one endangered red panda, a Sulawesi bear cuscus, a frog, and a rat; overall, it totaled 87 animals.