Red Panda School Project

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RED PANDA
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Scientific classification
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Carnivora
Family Ailuridae
Genus Ailurus
Species A. fulgens
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Red Panda

• The Red Pandas also has other names such as
  (lesser panda red cat-bear) the scientific name
  is (Ailurus fulgens)
• Genus Ailurus
• Species A. fulgens
• Add them together to
• Make the Scientific name
• Did you know? that the Red
• Panda use to be called panda
• Until the discovery of the Giant
• Panda on 9th of November 1869

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Warm or Cold Blooded

• Red pandas are Warm-Blooded/Endothermic because
  of their features of
• Fur, The thick coat of soft hair covering the
  skin of a Mammal
• Mammal, class of warm-blooded vertebrate animals
• Vertebrate, an animal with backbone
• Intelligence, the ability to learn or understand
  or to deal with new or trying situations
• Adaptation, change to meet requirements to
  change something to suit different conditions or
  a different purpose

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Conservation Status

• The Red panda is currently vulnerable with less
  than 10,000 of them remaining in the wild. But
  some zoos keep them like the Melbourne Zoo.

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Adaption

• Forests are red panda habitat, if they are cut
  down these cute looking animals won't be able to
  adapt well to other habitat. They depend on
  bamboo for the basic requirements of food and
  shelter. This part raccoon part bear might soon
  become extinct if the forests are cut down at the
  current rate.

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Bioclimatic zone

• Red pandas are found in the mountain forests of
  Nepal, India, Bhutan, China and Myanmar (Burma).
  They also have some of them in zoos to make sure
  they dont extinct.

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Are they related to Giant pandas

• Red pandas are closely related to raccoons and
  are similar to giant pandas and bears but now are
  in a family of their own.

Giant Panda
Red Panda
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What does it do?

• Red pandas are most active in early morning and
  late afternoon spending most of the day resting
  in trees conserving their energy. Red Pandas are
  normally solitary creatures but come together in
  pairs in the breeding season.

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Teeth
Red Panda teeth
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Diet

• Although classified as a carnivore, red pandas
  eat mainly bamboo, leaves, mushrooms, grass and
  fruit. Occasionally they will eat an egg, insect
  or a small animal.

Bamboo leaves
Mushrooms
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Who are his predators?

• The red pandas main predators are the snow
  leopard, Yellow necked martens (weasels) and
  humans.

Humans
Snow leopard
Yellow Necked martens (weasels)
Red Panda
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Reproduction

• After a gestation of about 134 days, litters of
  one to four young are born. Young stay in the
  nest for about 90 days, remain close to their
  mother until the next mating season begins, and
  reach adult size at about 12 months. Adult red
  pandas lead solitary lives.
• Did you know? Red pandas live 12 to 14 years.

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Did You Know?

• 1. Red pandas spend most of their time in trees.
  Their semi-retractable claws help them move from
  branch to branch with dexterity
• 2. Like the giant panda, red pandas sport a false
  thumb, which is actually an extension of the
  wrist bone.
• 3. The loss of nesting trees and bamboo in the
  Eastern Himalayasthe location of almost 50
  percent of the red pandas habitatis causing a
  decline in red panda populations across much of
  their range. WWF works with local communities to
  reduce human impact on the species habitat.
• 4. These rusty-furred creatures tend to live
  alone, only rarely traveling in pairs or in
  families.

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Did You Know?

• 5. Much smaller than their famous black-and-white
  cousins, red pandas measure in at just larger
  than a domestic cat.
• 6. Red pandas feed mainly on leaves and bamboo,
  but occasionally snack on fruit, insects, bird
  eggs and small lizards, too.
• 7. The red panda is the state animal of the
  Indian state of Sikkim. In 2011, WWF helped the
  government declare that the state held an
  estimated 300 red pandas. We also monitor red
  pandas in their habitat across India, Nepal and
  Bhutan.

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Bibliography

• Red panda details of http//redpandanetwork.org/
  blog/wp-content/documents/redpanda_facts_grades_3-
  6.pdf
• Zoo website http//www.zoo.org.au/melbourne/anima
  ls/red-panda
• Predator prey http//redpandapgjtwm.weebly.com/
  predators-and-prey.html
• Red Panda scientific classification
  http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Panda
• Conservation status http//wwf.panda.org/about_ou
  r_earth/teacher_resources/best_place_species/curre
  nt_top_10/red_panda.cfm?uProjectIDIN0910
• Reproduction http//www.chinatourmap.com/panda/re
  d_panda_reproduction.html
• What does it eat http//www.kidcyber.com.au/topic
  s/redpanda.htm
• Facts http//www.worldwildlife.org/stories/7-thin
  gs-you-should-know-about-red-pandas
• Warm-blooded http//photographicdictionary.com/wa
  rm-blooded?page5

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