Red Panda

• Range: China, Burma, and Nepal
  
• Habitat: Bamboo forests, often at high altitudes. They sleep in nests in trees which are built nightly of twigs and leaves.
  
• Description: Body is 2 feet long; tail is 1 to 1 ½ feet long.
  
• Weight: 6 ½ to 10 pounds.
  
• Diet: Bamboo shoots, grass, roots, fruit and acorns. A small portion of the diet is composed of mice, birds and bird eggs.
  
• Behavior: Most active at dawn and dusk. Seen in pairs of family groups. Usually spend days in trees, sleeping with its tails curled around their body or lying on a branch with legs dangling. Mild disposition, but if provoked, they will rear on their hind legs and hiss.
  
• Location: The red pandas are along the Tiger Trail in the Australasia section of the Zoo (topside)