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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]
A one-year-long monitoring study of ten red pandas in eastern Nepal showed that the four males had median home ranges of 1.73 km 2 (0.67 sq mi) and the six females of 0.94 km 2 (0.36 sq mi) within a forest cover of at least 19.2 ha (47 acres). The females travelled 419–841 m (1,375–2,759 ft) per day and the males 660–1,473 m (2,165 ...
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 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.
The red panda (Ailurus fulgens) is a Class II species in China, an endangered species on the IUCN Red List and listed in Appendix I of the CITES. As one of the world's most biodiverse countries and its second most populous , China is home to a significant number of wildlife species vulnerable to or in danger of local extinction due to the ...
For a species to be considered endangered by the IUCN it must meet certain quantitative criteria which are designed to classify taxa facing "a very high risk of extinction". An even higher risk is faced by critically endangered species, which meet the quantitative criteria for endangered species.
The four Atlanta pandas have been the last in the United States since the National Zoo in Washington returned three pandas to China last November. Other American zoos have sent pandas back to ...
The World Wide Fund-India raises concern in the longevity of the following animal species: the Red Panda, the Bengal Tiger, the Ganges River Dolphin, the Asian Elephant. [ 34 ] India signed the Wildlife Protection Act and also joined the Convention on the International Trade in 1976, to prevent poaching from harming its wildlife.