Red Panda Conservation Project

Red Panda Conservation Project
Vet 216 - Exotic Animal Nursing

"These are the himalayan mountains in the state of Sikkim, India. Altitudes here near 1500 to 4800 meters above sea level.
This is the home of the red panda.
Red pandas are an arboreal species and spend most of their time in trees, only coming down to move from one tree to another.
Their diet consists mainly of the bamboo leaves and shoots found only in these regions, however they also occasionally feed on berries, flowers, seeds, eggs, young birds, small rodents, and insects.

Their age to maturity is not very long, it takes only about 18 months for them to become sexually mature. They usually mate in the middle to late winter and females give birth mainly in june.
Red pandas are solitary animals except for the brief mating period and when mother and its young are together. The home range for males usually overlaps the home ranges of several females, as each female is only able to have between 1 and 5 babies.

Mothers need the saftey of thier environment for protection for themselves and thier babies, female red pandas make nests in tree hollows, bamboo thickets or rock crevices and lay their young in these nests.

A red panda without a world due to deforstation and fragmentation, is a world where males can't find females to mate with, mothers have no ablility to protect thieir young, and there is no food available

Habitat destruction is a global problem that continues to threaten wildlife, across the vast forest of the world creatures great and small are under threat.

A red panda with out a world, is a world without the red panda

Red panda is endangered and only a few tousand remain, with hunting of red panda pelts and destruction of thier forest habitat the future for Red Panda is bleak."

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[ProphetTenebrae]

Red pandas are one of the few mammalian living fossils - it would be a real shame if after having been around for millions of years, they were wiped out by man.