The red panda is an omnivorous animal primarily eating bamboo, along with other foods like fruits, eggs, and small mammals. They inhabit temperate mountain forests in Southeast Asia, where they spend most of their time in trees and are most active during dawn and dusk. Red pandas are solitary creatures with a low metabolic rate, adapting to their habitat with unique physical traits like a false thumb for grasping bamboo.

1. Customer: Ariel Hyers
Animal: Red Panda
Report by: Felicia Ferentinos
Red Panda Report
The Red panda is an omnivore which means that they can only eat plants and
other animals. Just like their cousins the giant panda the food that they eat most
is bamboo, but they eat more then just bamboo they can eat other foods to and
those foods are berries, roots and they also eat grasses to. These animals can also
eat meat to and that means that they can also eat other animals and the animals
that they hunt are bird eggs, small birds and they can also eat mice to. The red
pandas diet is known to have a really slow energy content that is most of the
reason why they more so slow and they spend a lot of their time sleeping so that
they can save their energy. The foods that the red panda will mostly eat are
bamboo, grass, roots, fruit , grubs, bird eggs and they can also eat really small
mammals like mice, chicks and they can also eat lizards to. The bamboo that they
eat consumes about 1.5 kgs (3.3 lbs.) of the red panda’s diet. When they are
eating on fresh leaves then their diet consumes about 4 kgs (8.8 lbs) this is how
much food that a red panda gets to eat for per day. They can also eat fresh shoots
to and they can eat as the some of amount as they do when they are eating
leaves. The red panda spends a lot of hours eating bamboo. But they only eat the
parts of the bamboo like the leaves and the tender shoot parts of the bamboo.
The red panda has an second thumb just like the giant panda does. This special
thumb is an wrist bone that help the red panda to grab the bamboo. When the
red panda is in the world then they will eat a lot of bamboo, fruit, grass, roots,
acorns, insects, eggs, baby birds, small rodents and they will also eat lichen to.
When they are in captivity the keepers will activity feed them Marion leafeater
biscuits, grapes, coreless apples, mixed fruit, but they do not feed them melon,
they do eat bamboo when they are in captivity but they will only eat them when
the season is good enough for them to eat. Bamboo is not a good food to eat in
the really cold seasons fruit is also not a really good change to eat when it gets

2. cold out to. The red panda does eat the whole bamboo it only eats the leaves. The
red panda will eat the bamboo when the spring season come. They can also eat
fruit but they can only eat that during the summer and they will also eat acorns
and flowers during this season to. These animals have really special diets because
of the bamboo that they eat that is so unusually for a mammal, but it is true that
there are only a couple of animals that rather eat bamboo and those animals are
the giant panda, red panda and the lemurs that live on the island of Madagascar.
The other animal that will also eats bamboo this animal is a rodent that lives in
China and in Southeast of Asia and this rodent is called the bamboo rat. The red
panda will spend 13 hours of the day looking for bamboo. The red panda cannot
digest cellulose, so that means that they have to a lot of bamboo so that they can
stay alive. Most of their diet consists mostly on bamboo but they can also eat
other food materials to. The other food that they eat is mushrooms, roots, acorns,
lichen and they can also eat grass to. The red panda is known to have a really
special diet that also means that they can also eat other animals to like baby birds
eggs,really small rodents and they can also different insects but they only hunt
these types of animals on occasions. When the red panda is eating bamboo they
will only eat the leaves, they will also eat other different foods like berries,
blossoms, bird eggs and they will also eat various plants but they will only eat the
leaves off of those plants. These animals have really broad teeth an really
powerful jaws that can help them to chew the bamboo’s really hard leaves and
their stalks to. On their wrist there is a really small and bony projection that can
help them to grab the bamboo stalks. The red panda is not the only animal that
has a thumb-like adaptation the giant panda also has this to.The red panda lives in
the dense, temperate mountain forests that are in the south of Southeast Asia
that have the altitudes of 1,800-4,000m (6,000-13,200 ft.). When it is time for
them to rest then they will start to make nests that can be find in tree holes,
branch forks, tree roots and they can also use thickets they use these materials to
make their nests. The time that they will mostly rest is during the day because
they will be really active when evening or when it gets dark out and they will need
a lot rest if they are going to stay up all night. The red panda can be found in the
Himalayas that is in the south central of Asia that can be located in the southern
part of China. The type of habitats that these animals will live in is really high

3. elevations that are in the cold temperate bamboo forests. The red panda can also
be seen in the foothills that are high up in the Himalayan Mountains that are
located in Burma, Tibet, Nepal, and they can also be found in China. The type
areas where they live in are really cold, wet mountain forests that have a mix
between coniferous and deciduous trees and that has thick bamboo that can be
growing under the ground. The red panda will mostly spend a lot of their time
hanging up in tree branches. They like to live up there because so that they will be
safe from predators and another reason why because they are not really good at
running. The best place for the red panda to live on is a place that has high
altitude temperate forest. The red panda lives in the really cold temperate
bamboo forests that are in the Sichuan and in the Yunnan and they will also live in
some parts of China they will also live in the Himalayas and they will live in the
Myanmar to. They will also share some parts of their range with the giant panda.
The red panda can be found high up in the mountains in the Himalayas that can
be found in the west part of China and they will also live in the northern part of
Myanmar (Burma), and Laos. The most common place for the red panda to live in
is in the steep mountain slopes that can be covered with two different forests
which happens to be coniferous forests and the deciduous hardwoods, they also
like to live in places where there is a lot of bamboo and that has lots of
rhododendrons to. They rather live in places that the altitudes between 5,000 to
15,000 feet. The red panda likes to live in areas that have the climate has to be
(10-25 C) that has little annual fluctuation and they like to live in places that has
mountain forest areas that has the elevations of 5,000 to 15,700 feet (1,800-4,800
meters). The red panda is known to be a cavity nester. They will use rock dens and
old hollow trees. They will spend a lot of their time dropping over really big trees
because they can be really active when dawn and dusk comes that will be the
time when they start to eat to. The red panda can be found on the mountain
forests that are in Nepal, India, Bhutan, China and they can also be found in
Myanmar (another word for this place is called Burma). The size of the red panda
is 7 to 14 pounds, 20 to 25 inches that is how long their body is. The size of their
tail can be big as 14 to 19 inches. The body length of the red panda is 20 to 25
inches (51 to 64 centimeters). The males can weigh about 10 to 14 pounds (4.5 to
6.2 kilograms) and the weight of the female is 6 to 10 pounds (3 to 4.5 kilograms).

4. The length of their tail is 11 to 19 inches (28 to 64 centimeters). The normal body
length of the red panda is 44 inches long that also includes their tail that can be
big 19 inches and they can weigh about 7 to 13 pounds. The red panda can be 2
feet (60 cm) long that also means that their very long tail which can be big as 1.5
feet (46 cm) long. They can weigh about 12 pounds (5 kg). The length of the red
panda is 31 to 47 inches ( that will also mean their tail which the tails length is
about 30 to 60 centimeters/12 to 24 inches). These animals can weigh about 6 to
15 pounds. The length of the red panda is 50 to 64 cms( 20 to 25 inches. The tail
can be big as 28 to 50 cms (11-20 inches). These animals can weigh about 3 to 6
kgs (6.5- 13lbs). The size of their head and body is 20 to 26 in (50 to 65 cm). Their
tail can be big as 12 to 20 in (30 to 50 cm). They can weigh about 12 to 20lbs (5.4
to 9 kg). The average length for the red panda is 56 cm and their average weigh is
4.5 kg. The red panda looks like it has the same size as the raccoon and they can
weigh about 20 to 26 inches long and their tail can weigh 12 to 20 inches. When
the red panda is in the wild then they can live about 8 to 10 years and when they
are in captivity they can live about 15 years. The are some people that are saying
that the red panda can life about 12 to 24 years but their average life span is
really 8 to 10 years that is their life span when they are in the wild and when they
are in captivity they can live about 14 years. They can also life about 8 to 14 years.
There are some red pandas that can live for 13 years. When they are in the wild
then they can live about 8 to 10 years and when they are in captivity being taking
care of by humans then they can life about 15 years. When they are in a zoo then
they can live about 14 years and when they are in the wild they may live for 7 to 8
years.Never look at any red pandas during the day they will only be really active
during dawn and dusk. The best time for them to sleep is really during the really
hottest part of the day. That will be the time when they start to lick their paws
and they will also clean their fur and the rest of their body to. A person can see a
red panda lying on a tree branch and they will also lay on a hollow tree to. They
will start to cover their face with their really long tail. The red panda is really
known to be nocturnal and they are also crepuscular to. The best time for the red
panda to be really active is at dawn and dusk. So during the day they will spend
their time sleeping high up in a tree. The red panda is totally an arboreal animal.
They will spend all of their time high up in the trees. When they are high up on a

5. branch then they will normally rest on the trees. The time for the red panda to
look for food is really during the morning and the evening part of the day, but
during the day than that will be the time when they are resting high up in the tree
but they do not just rest in trees they can also rest in other places to like they can
rest on tree branches and fallen logs. The red panda moves really slowly when
they are on the ground but when they are up in the tree they can move really fast
and this where they spent all of their time in.The reason why they rather sleep
during that time so that they can safe their energy for when they go out to look
for food when the evening comes and so that they can be wide awake when they
do it. The red panda will also be active during morning to. When the night comes
than that will be the time when they start to run really fast high up in the trees so
that they can look for food. When the night comes that will also be the time when
the males will mark their territories at this part of the day and they will mark
their territory by using urine from their secretion for their anal glands. There is
about two subspecies of the red panda. The first subspecies is called the
Ailurusfulgensfulgens this one is known to be the biggest of all of the red panda
subspecies and they have a really light color on them. These red pandas can be
found in the Himalayas and they can also be found in southern Tibet. The second
red panda subspecies is the Ailurusfulgensslyani. These red pandas have the most
striking facial markings and they can be found in the southwest of China and they
can also be found in the north of Burma. The red panda will sleep for 15 hours in a
single day. The red panda has an very low metabolic this can make the red panda
move so slow it can be as slow as the slowest animal on the planet the sloth.
These animals are amazing climbers. The tree is the perfect nest for a red panda.
To help thme to keep balance on the tree they will use their very long tails to do
that. They have to keep their balance when they are scale for steep heights. The
red panda is not related to the giant panda they are more related to the raccoon
that a really big black and white bear and the other bears that is in the bear
family. They will also use their tails so that they can keep themselves warm when
there are some days that are really cold so to get warm the red panda will use its
tail to stay warm. They will also eat on the trees to. The only time that they will
come down from the tree is when the evening comes and then the red panda will
start to look for food in the darkness. The red panda is a really territorial animal

6. they can mark their territory by droppings of their urine that has come from their
musky secretion that is from their anal glands. The red panda can easily be found
in the holes that can be in trees and they can also rest high up in the trees to. The
place where they will eat is mostly on the ground. These animals are really good
at leaping they can leap as far as 4 feet. They can also move really fast to and they
will also really good at climbing a tree. The red panda shares their habitat with
other animals to and those animals are the Takin, golden monkey, blue sleep,
gibbons, civets, tapirs, rhinos, elephants, giant panda, snow leopards, golden
snub-nose monkey and the Asiatic black bear. These are the animals that share
their habitat with the red panda. The western and the Styan’s red panda can
climb a tree by using their claws to help them to get to the part of the tree where
it wants to be. The red panda can protect their territory or if they are feeling like
they are in danger then they will stand on their hind legs and they will also use
their very sharp claws so that when the danger comes to close to them then they
will strike at the danger . sometimes that does not work on predator but the red
panda does other things to protect it self these animals have a really strong odor
that comes from their scent glands that located on their tail. Red pandas can use
so many different sounds to talk to each other and those calls are shrill cries,
whistles, and birdlike chirp. The red panda will use their claws to climb a tree. The
claws happen to be really sharp that are known to be semi-retractable. On the red
pandas feet there are soles on them so that they can protect the wooly hair that
helps when they are really hot are when they are in danger of falling out of an
really wet branch. The red panda has 38 teeth and they have an really powerful
jaws that are used to crush on their favorite foods which is bamboo. The red
panda has an bone that is located on the inner side of their wrist this acts a like a
“false thumb” this helps the red panda to hold the bamboo leaves and the poles.
The red panda does not live in a family or in a group which means that these
animals are solitary animals, They are also known to be really shy and really quiet,
but when they do come in contact with each other they can communate with
each other by shrill cries, repeated whistles, peeping and they can also be an chirp
that sounds like a bird. When they are feeling like they are in danger then they
will start to hide in a rock crevice and they can also hide in trees. They can also
talk to each other by using body language if they want to. The black and white

7. marks are used as camouflage from predators that want to eat them. The red
color on them it looks like it is the color moss which can be found on the trees
even through they live high up in the trees. The black color that is found on their
stomach this makes predators really hard to find them especially the ones that
are on the ground.When they are high up in the really cold mountains with the
really cold climates which means the red panda is made to keep themselves warm
and to do they will use their fur to form a blanket like tail. Even through on really
cold days the red panda has been seen sunbathing way up high in the canopy so
they can warm themselves up when they are sleeping in the day time. In the year
of 2001 there have been 79% of red pandas that were found in 100 meters in
nearest body of water. Even through that is a really good water source that may
also be able to be really great for their really strict habitats. There has been some
evidence that are saying that the red panda reproduction rates is starting to be
really declining which is starting to believe that they are related to the types of
food that they eat so that they can survive and so that they have babies
successfully. Scientists are always arguing for years about the red panda and the
giant panda because they do not know if they are activity relate to each other.
That is because the red panda and the giant panda share a really common
ancestor that lived millions of years ago. The only differences between the two
are that the giant panda is really big and there are some biologists that wrote
about the red panda and they call it the lesser panda. So the red panda is not
really related to the giant panda but they are activity related to the raccoon,
kinkajous, and the coatimundis. The red panda is more in the raccoon group then
the it is in the bear group because that is where the giant panda is in. The red
panda faces a lot of predators and the animals that would love to eat a red panda
are snow leopards, Martens and humans are the creatures that can kill a red
panda. The red panda faces a lot of predators and those animals are the snow
leopard, clouded leopard and wild dogs. These are the types of animals that will
love to eat a red panda.The red panda will start to mate in the mouths of May and
July after the gestation period is done which will take about 112-158 days. The
mother will normally have 1 to 4 cubs and they will be born in a nest that is made
out of moss, leaves, and other soft plants that can be found on their habitat. The
moment that they are born than the cubs will start to weigh about 110-130 g(3.9-

8. 4.6oz). The red panda cubs will start to open their eyes when they are about 18
days old. The cubs will start to leave nest in 12 weeks. When they are 8 months
old than that will be the time when the cubs will start to drink their mothers milk.
The babies will stay with their mother until the mother gives birth to new babies
which will start to happen in the following summer. They will a full-grown red
panda when they are about 12 months and they will reach maturity when they
are 18 months old. The gestation period for the red panda is 134 days. The
average litter for a red panda can have is 1 to 4 cubs that is the total litter of cubs.
The babies will only stay in the nest for 90 days. They will stay with their mother
until mating season comes back. The average size for an adult red panda is 12
months. That will be the time when they start live their lives all of their own
without any help from their mother. The red panda does not have a very long
mating season. The female will start look for a nest and those places happen to be
a hollow tree or a rock crevice these are some of the places where they are
making their nests. There nest is being lined up with the leaves and the bamboo.
The gestation period can take more than just 19 weeks. The babies will be born
with red fur that is covering their whole body. In a about a few months then that
will be the time when they start to look like miniature adults. The babies will start
to leave the nest in about 3 months. They will not leave their mother until one
year that is the time when they start to look like a full-grown red panda. They will
start to reach maturity in about 18 months. The male and the female will start to
reach maturity in 18 months. To get a mate a male will usually fight for the female
that it wants to mate with. When they are doing these dangerous fights the first
thing that they will do is arch with their backs and then they will start to make
their heads really low. Than the step that they will do is they will stand on their
hind legs and they will beat each other with their forepaws. The winning male and
the female will start to mate during the winter like in the mouths of January and
in the mid-March. The gestation period for a red panda is through 90 to 150 days
that also means a long period doing implantation. The babies will start to be born
in the June and in the late July. The mother can have as 1 to 5 babies that is how
many babies that a red panda mother can have. But there has only been a pair
that has been born out of the mother. Right before the mother starts to give birth
the first thing that she has to do is look for a good place to make a nest and that

9. good place maybe in a hollow tree and in a rock crevice. The first time that they
are born that they will have a full set of fur on them but there are completely bind
and they are totally helpless. Their eyes will start to open in about 17 to 18 days.
Then they will start to leave their nests for the very first time in about 90 days in a
age. That type of day that they will usually leave the nest is when It gets dark out.
The babies will start to look like adults when they are 12 months old. The babies
will stay with the mother in only for one year or the next time that she has a new
litter of cubs that are about to be born. The gestation period for the red panda is
98 to 145 days or after they are done with implantation. The mother will normally
have 2 or 4 cubs in a littler. The babies can weigh about 3.85 to 4.55 ounces (110
to 130 grams). They will be a mature adult when in 18 to 20 months. The female
mother will only give birth to only two cubs and they will start to be born in the
mid-May and in July. When the female is ready to have babies then she will start
to make a nest that is made of hollow trees or rock crevices. The moment that the
cubs are born than they will be full with fur all over their babies and they will not
be able to see really well to and they are totally helpless to the moment that they
are out of their mother’s stomach. The babies will start to open their eyes in two
or in four weeks that will be the time when they start to see really well. For the
mother to make milk for the babies she will have to consume 3 times more the
rather quantity for her very low nutrient diet for bamboo. The red panda babies
will be ready to eat rather bamboo when they are about 5 months old. The
youngers will stay with their mother in only for one year. The mother will be in
pregnant for months. The cubs will live in a nest that is made out of twigs and
grass. The newborn babies will all be covered with thick gray fur and their eyes
and their ears are closed. They will start to come out of the nest in about 3
months of age. They will stay with the mother until the mother is ready to have
another baby and until the mating season comes back. The red panda is under the
animals that are on the list of being threatened that means that they are known
to be reallyvulnerable. This list is called the IUCN Red list of Threatened Species.
The reason why they are on the threatened specieslist is because people are
destroying their habitats because they are cutting down their forests habitats so
that they can make towns and cities. There are about 2.500 adult red pandas that
are lifted on our planet today. The reason why these animals are in trouble

10. because their habitats are being destroyed that is because of deforestation for
timber, fuel, and agricultural use. The red pandas that live on the western side of
their range almost became in extinct that is because people are cutting down
their forest habitats so that they can make room for houses and roads. The
biggest threat to these animals is loss of habitat. Today the red panda is on the
IUCH Red list these are the types of animals that are in trouble that is going on in
their national environment are animals that are really threatened because
extinction is harming their future. There are about seven species of that are
known to be threating with extinction that is due for their future. There are some
scientists are saying there are about 3,000 red pandas that are still in the wild that
are in really small protected areas which is also called as national park. There a lot
breeding programs that are in Asia, Europe and in North America and they all
have a huge success on their work. The reason why they are in trouble because
they are victims of deforestation. The red panda’s habitat is not looking so good
because there is not a enough space for red pandas to live on because people are
cutting down their forest habitats and their habitats will get destroyed because of
logging and they are also in trouble because people are spreading agriculture
around in a area where red pandas roam. The big reason why red pandas are in
trouble because people are totally clearing out their forests homes because
people are farming and grazing on them. People are also hunting them and they
are also getting sold as pets. Lots of people do not know how much there is in the
wild but lots of people are saying that there are about 2,500 red pandas that are
lifted on the planet today. But there is some good news and that is there a lot of
conservation efforts all over the world that are set to save the red panda. Their
habitat is not the only thing that is putting these animals in danger people are
also killing them for their fur so that they can make clothing out of them like hats.
The biggest threats to these animals is that their habitats are starting to disappear
because of logging, agriculture and people are also collecting firewood. The red
panda is also being hunted for meat and for fur the reason people are kill them
for meat and for their fur because so that they can make clothes out of them.
Hunting is a really big problem in China. The red panda is being protected
because people are making laws that can be found in lots of different states that
are known to be really protected areas for the red panda, but these problem is

11. still going on for the red pandas that do not live in a reserve because people are
still hunting them and their habitat is also not looking very good either. There are
a lot of people that are working very hard to save the red panda from being gone
forever. They are still trying to protect the habitat that is still lifted for these
animals and there are laws that are being set to help with their survival. We must
do something to save these amazing animals. These animals need all the help that
they can get. Red pandas have the right to continue living on this planet. They are
doing their part in nature and we should find a place in nature to. This is a really
big planet that is fall of wonders and discoveries that are just waiting to be found.
We have to make this planet safe for us and for the other creatures that we share
it with. This is our beautiful homes it deserves to have a second change to live on
for the next generation on this planet. There is a really big, bright and beautiful
future if we find a way to protect our planetwill be much safer place to live on.
This is our world and our home will be happy and clean place to live on. We have
to make room for other living creatures to. God made animals for a reason just
like he made us. That is what I know about the red panda. If we all work together
we can save the red panda and other animals that live on this planet to. Together
we can make a difference in our beautiful planet that we all share