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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.
Pandas melted the hearts of visitors at Chinese zoo after sitting at a table to eat bamboo in a scene that seemed taken straight out of the Goldilocks fairytale Image credits: NurPhoto / Getty
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]
English: A red panda, Ailurus fulgens, perched on a tree, eating bamboo in the rain at Symbio Wildlife Park in Helensburgh, NSW, Australia. Date 6 November 2017
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]
Ailuropodinae is a subfamily of Ursidae that contains only one extant species, the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) of China.The fossil record of this group has shown that various species of pandas were more widespread across the Holarctic, with species found in places such as Europe, much of Asia, North America and even Africa.
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Giant panda eye. From Greek αἴλουρος aílouros "cat" + ‒ποδός ‒podós "foot" (gen. sg.). Unlike most bears, giant pandas do not have round pupils, but instead have vertical slits, similar to those of cats. This has not only inspired the scientific name, but in Chinese the giant panda is called "large bear cat" (大熊猫, dà ...