17 Curiosities about red pandas that you never
Curious Planet collects the curiosities about red pandas that you may not have known. You will love these fun facts about red pandas as much as I do. I am obsessed with them.
Do you know the red pandas? These reddish furry creatures with white spots on their faces and a resemblance to a bear and a raccoon have won the hearts of many people, especially because of the Disney movie ‘Turning Red’
In said film Mei Lee , a 13-year-old girl struggles to be obedient and a chaotic teenager. Every time she gets excited she turns into a giant red panda.
Curiosities about red pandas that you did not know.
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1. Red pandas are vegetarian carnivores.
This sounds like an irony, but it is not. Red pandas are classified among carnivorous animals such as dogs, cats. It is a biological order, where not everyone is truly carnivorous, some are omnivores and others are vegetarians. Red pandas are carnivores because they descend from the same ancestors as other carnivores. They only eat bamboo.
2. Red pandas spend 13 hours a day eating and foraging.
Unlike giant pandas that eat all the bamboo, red pandas only eat the young bamboo leaves. To get adequate nutrition they spend between 13 hours a day eating. In winter they can lose up to 15 percent of their body weight.
3. Red pandas are taller than a domestic cat
Its tail can be up to 18 inches long. Their tails serve them to curl up high in the trees where they lead solitary lives. They are wrapped and thus kept warm. Also their tails help them maintain balance.
4. Red pandas are made to live in trees.
In addition to their tails helping them keep their balance, their paws are designed to grab hold of slippery branches. This is because they lack pads on their feet, but have fur that covers the soles of their feet. That adds insulation against the cold so they don’t slip when walking on mossy branches.
5. Another curious fact about their legs is that the soles of their feet have scent glands that help them mark their territory.
6. Their claws are also sharp and can be retracted like cats.
For this and other characteristics, it also receives the nickname of red cat bear. (Check out cat trivia )
7. Red pandas have a fake thumb.
This fake thumb is actually an extended wrist bone. It helps them climb trees, where they spend most of their time feeding.
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8. The Firefox browser logo is a red panda.
That’s right, the firefox logo is not a fox . Firefox actually means red panda. Mozilla originally wanted to name their browser Firebird, but learning that another open source project was using that name, they decided to name it Firefox, which is another English name for red panda.
9 It was named panda in 1820, the year it was discovered.
This is one of the most interesting red panda fun facts. It was called a panda when it was discovered in the 1820s. The name panda is said to come from the Nepali word ‘ponya’, which means bamboo or plant-eating animal.
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10. They are the real pandas.
The red panda is the “first panda” and the “original panda”, as Western scientists named it a panda 50 years before the giant pandas . In fact, they named the black and white bear after the smaller red panda for some similarities, like a liking for bamboo and an extra thumb. You already knew these curiosities of the red pandas. I bet not.
11Red pandas have their own family
The latest research places red pandas in their own taxonomic family, Ailuridae , while giant pandas belong to the Ursidae , or bear family.
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12. Red pandas are perfectly camouflaged thanks to their red and black colors.
The red of their fur is similar to the color of the leaves of the trees where they rest in the mountainous forests of China, India, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar. Black makes it hard for predators like snow leopards to see them through the dark foliage.
13. The reddish spots on his face protect him from the sun.
Its reddish spots on its face, which go from its eyes to its mouth, help protect it from the sun. The white color of her almost luminescent face serves the mother to guide the lost cubs in the dark.
14. The mother and her calf are very close until the calves become aggressive
After birth, the mother cleans her young, they take care of them almost full time, spending between 60 and 90 percent during the first days. The males do not have a close relationship with their children.
After a week, the females leave the nest, returning every few hours to nurse and groom their young, and clean the nest. The young and their mother are attached until they become aggressive when the next breeding season begins.
15. They live in divided households.
10,000 red pandas are believed to live in the wild and hundreds more live in zoos around the world. Those that live in the wild live in small areas and intact forests.
16. Males like to attract attention by smelling bad.
Because red pandas lead solitary lives, they must scramble to find a female. In addition to marking their territory, as we saw in point 5, males like to color piles of personal poop. One expert says it’s like putting out a public message : “Hello, I’m over here.” The males try by all means to get on well with a female. If in 24 to 48 hours they cannot conquer them, they simply leave.
17. Red pandas are threatened.
The loss of their habitat, due to the human population and the exploitation of resources, has affected the panda populations. On the other hand, poaching threatens their survival. Some are adopted as pets, which is a bad idea, and others are killed for their fur.
Without a doubt, red pandas are cute and very interesting animals. His life is full of curiosities that never cease to amaze us. Do you know of any other interesting facts about red pandas that did not appear on this list?
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