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    Red pandas have a gestation period of about 131 days. Litters average 1-7 cubs weighing 110-130g each. Both males and females mate with multiple partners during mating season. Cubs attain adult fur around 90 days and begin venturing outside the nest. The red panda is an endangered species with less than 10,000 remaining in the wild due to habitat loss, fragmentation, poaching, and inbreeding depression.

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    Red pandas have a gestation period of about 131 days. Litters average 1-7 cubs weighing 110-130g each. Both males and females mate with multiple partners during mating season. Cubs attain adult fur around 90 days and begin venturing outside the nest. The red panda is an endangered species with less than 10,000 remaining in the wild due to habitat loss, fragmentation, poaching, and inbreeding depression.

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    Red pandas have a gestation period of about 131 days. Litters average 1-7 cubs weighing 110-130g each. Both males and females mate with multiple partners during mating season. Cubs attain adult fur around 90 days and begin venturing outside the nest. The red panda is an endangered species with less than 10,000 remaining in the wild due to habitat loss, fragmentation, poaching, and inbreeding depression.

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    Red pandas are arboreal dwellers,

    Reproduction meaning they spend most of their


    Red pandas are able to reproduce after 18 time in trees.
    months, and are fully mature at 2-3 years.
    When mating both sexes may mate with
    more than one partner during mating
    season. A red panda’s litter averages to 1-7
    with a sex ratio of 17:2 males to female. The
    gestation period averages to 131 days.
    Before birthing, the females collect material
    such as brushwood, and grass to build a
    nest. When the cubs are born they could
    weigh between 110-130 g each. The mother
    can recognize each by its distinctive smell.
    Around 90 days they cubs attain adult fur,
    and begin to venture outside the nest.

    The Red Panda


    Refrences Ailurus fulgens
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda#Diet

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-science- The red panda has a “false” thumb;


    education-center/2018/09/12/fun-facts-about-red-pandas/
    descending head first it rotates its Kyndra Prietzel
    Wei, Fuwen et al. “Habitat use and separation between the giant
    panda and the red panda.” Journal of Mammalogy 81.2 (2000): 448-455 ankle to control the descent; one of
    Roberts, Miles S., and David S. Kessler. “Reproduction in red
    pandas, Ailurus fulgens (Carnivora: Ailuropodidae).” Journal of
    the few animals to do so.
    Zoology 188.2 (1979): 235-249.
    Panda Time! Endangered Species More Information!

    Diet Red Pandas are among the most


    Bamboo, berries, bugs, flowers, small endangered species. Less than
    mammals, and sometimes birds 10,000 individuals remain in the
    wild.
    Behavior

    Territorial, red pandas walk their Reasons:


    terrirotires marking with urine. They are  Habitat loss
    usually quiet execpt for a few squeking  Fragmentation
    (communication). It is known that red  Poaching
    pandas are nocturnal (sleeps during the  Inbreeding depression
    day, has fun at night). Red pandas use trees
    or rocks to scratch their backs. However,
    when threatened by predators such as snow
    leapords or humans they hiss, flee, or stand
    on their paws trying to appear large
    (though they are only 22-24 inches tall).

    Habitat

    Central Nepal eastward, along the


    Himalayas; Bhutan, India, and into China.
    They reside in forests.
    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
    Class: Mammalia
    Order: Carnivora
    Donate to Save The Red Pandas! Family: Ailuridae
    Genus: Ailurus
    Species: A. fulgens

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