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The global potential habitat of the red panda has been estimated to comprise 47,100 km 2 (18,200 sq mi) at most; this habitat is located in the temperate climate zone of the Himalayas with a mean annual temperature range of 18–24 °C (64–75 °F). [34]
Facts about red pandas. 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.
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]
WWF estimates there are fewer than 10,000 red pandas left in the wild of Asia's high forests and they are listed as endangered, with habitat loss the number one issue followed closely by climate ...
There are an estimated 10,000 red pandas in the wild, and their shrinking Himalayan forest habitat puts them at further risk, according to a 2022 study published by University of Queensland ...
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]
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