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The Calcutta Zoo received a live red panda in 1877, the Philadelphia Zoo in 1906, and Artis and Cologne Zoos in 1908. In 1908, the first captive red panda cubs were born in an Indian zoo. In 1940, the San Diego Zoo imported four red pandas from India that had been caught in Nepal; their first litter was born in 1941.
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]
Many giant panda houses were broken in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The region, including the Panda Research Center, was largely devastated by the catastrophic May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake, though the captive giant pandas were initially reported to be safe. [16] [17] Immediately after the quake, officials were unable to contact the reserve. [18]
The red panda, deemed endangered by the World Wildlife Fund, is native to China and India. It is not at all closely related to the giant panda , despite having a similar name.
In total there have been eight live births at the zoo. The most famous panda to have lived at the zoo is Tohui (1981–1993). [62] As of November 2019, the two female giant pandas who live at the zoo, Shuan Shuan (b. 1988) and Xin Xin (b. 1990), are the oldest Giant Pandas in captivity. [63]
The two bears are Yun Chuan, a 4-year-old male, and Xin Bao, a 3-year-old female. Yun Chuan’s mother, Zhen Zhen, was born at the San Diego Zoo in 2007.Yun Chuan is “pretty outgoing and lively ...
D.C. is panda-obsessed. Residents of Washington DC and across the country rejoiced yesterday at the arrival of a pair of pandas coming to live at the Smithsonian National Zoo from China.
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]