Pandas were presented to her family as a gift, and they were then housed in "a special tree house". == Taxonomy == Ailurus fulgens was the scientific name proposed by Frédéric Cuvier in 1825, who described a zoological specimen sent by Alfred Duvaucel "from the mountains north of India".
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In the 19th and 20th centuries, the following specimens were described: by Thomas Hardwicke in 1827 from the Himalayas who explained: "It is frequently discovered by its loud cry or call, resembling the word ‘Wha’, often repeating the same: hence is derived one of the local names by which it is known.
Hardwicke's originally proposed taxonomic name was removed from the publication with his permission. Ailurus ochraceus proposed by Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1847 was a red panda from the Himalayas.
This stems from a lapsus made by Henri Milne-Edwards in 1874.
fulgens. Ailurus fulgens styani described by Oldfield Thomas in 1902 was based on one skull from a male specimen collected in Sichuan by F.W.
In an article appearing in the International Zoo News in 1969, one reported he personally had handled 350 red pandas in 17 years. Due to CITES, this zoo harvest has decreased substantially in recent years, but poaching continues, and red pandas are often sold to private collectors at exorbitant prices.
It prefers mountainous mixed deciduous and conifer forests, especially with old trees and dense understories of bamboo. During a survey in the 1970s, signs of red pandas were found in Nepal's Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve.
In 1977, a single tooth of Parailurus was discovered in the Pliocene Ringold Formation of Washington.
In 1999, the total population in China was estimated at between 3,000 and 7,000 individuals.
In 2001, the wild population in India was estimated at between 5,000 and 6,000 individuals.
In 2004, a tooth from a red panda species never before recorded in North America was discovered at the Gray Fossil Site in Tennessee.
As of 2006, more than 800 individuals were kept in zoos and parks around the world.
Their presence was confirmed in spring 2007 when four red pandas were sighted at elevations ranging from .
In some parts of Nepal and India, red pandas are kept as pets. The red panda has a naturally low birth rate (usually one single or twin birth per year), and a high death rate in the wild. == Conservation == The red panda is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2008 because the global population is estimated at about 10,000 individuals, with a decreasing population trend; only about half of the total area of potential habitat of is actually being used by the species.
Additional fossils of Pristinailurus bristoli were discovered at the Gray Fossil Site in 2010 and in 2012. The discovery in Spain of the postcranial remains of Simocyon batalleri, a Miocene relative to the red panda, supports a sister-group relationship between red pandas and bears.
Additional fossils of Pristinailurus bristoli were discovered at the Gray Fossil Site in 2010 and in 2012. The discovery in Spain of the postcranial remains of Simocyon batalleri, a Miocene relative to the red panda, supports a sister-group relationship between red pandas and bears.
In 2018, red pandas were sighted at elevations of in Nepal's Lamjung District. The red panda population in Sichuan Province is larger and more stable than the Yunnan population, suggesting a southward expansion from Sichuan into Yunnan in the Holocene. The red panda has become extirpated from the Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Gansu, Shaanxi, and Qinghai. == Behavior and ecology== === Behavior === The red panda is territorial; it is solitary except during mating season.
The discovery suggests the red panda's "false thumb" was an adaptation to arboreal locomotion, independent of the giant panda's adaptation to manipulate bamboo, one of the most dramatic cases of convergent evolution among vertebrates. In 2020, results of a phylogenetic analysis of red panda samples showed that red pandas in China and the Himalayas were separated by a river about 250,000 years ago.
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