Red panda
Status
Classification
Exhibit
Water is Life
Top-notch Tree Climbers
With razor sharp, semi-retractable claws and a large bushy tail, red pandas are built for climbing swiftly through trees, where they sometimes live inside holes in the trunk.
Dense Fur & Powerful Jaws
Best recognized for their beautiful coat, red pandas sport soft, dense and long fur which keeps them warm in the mountains of Nepal and Southwest China. They often use their large, fluffy tails as a blanket to cover their face and nose to stay warm.
Red pandas use their powerful jaws to crush one of their favorite foods—bamboo. They actually have a bone on the inner side of the wrist that acts as a "false thumb" to help them handle bamboo leaves and poles.
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