Essay On Red Panda

“So elusive that, until recently, barely any westerner had seen one in the wild, red pandas are probably the most beautiful animal still pending on most mammal-watchers’ checklists” says Dirk Cross, the CEO of the Red Panda Network. The red panda is famously known as the the firefox because of its beautiful red coat. Its cousin is the giant panda, and it is often referred to as the ‘lesser panda’ because of the size comparison between the two. The red panda is an animal that people know a lot of information about, including their physical characteristics, their habitat, the threats they face, their behavior, and their eating habits.
The red panda has physical characteristics that are unique and well known. They have soft red-orange hair on the upperside of their body, blackish-brown hair on the underside and legs of their body, and white spots around their eyes and on their cheeks (Red Panda Facts). They have large, round heads with pointed ears and a short snout (Red Panda, Smithsonian). Their body resembles a bear in shape, but their size is only slightly larger than a domestic house cat (Red Panda, World). The red panda’s body is about two feet long plus an addition of one and a half feet by its tail (Red Panda …show more content…
They could be active anytime they wanted, but they are usually most active at dawn and dusk. They are also more active in colder weather and hardly move when the temperatures are warmer. They are solitary animals usually, except during breeding season (Red Panda, Smithsonian). If the red panda is in range of another, it will often communicate with each other by using body language. Examples of this would be head bobbing and tail arching. They rarely live more than ten years in the wild, but if they are put into captivity, the lifespan of the red panda can reach up to eighteen years (Red Panda