People once thought the red panda was related to bears or raccoons, but they are actually their own genus, Ailuridae. Within the genus, there are two species: fulgens fulgens and fulgens refulgens.

Despite their name, Red Pandas are not related to panda bears. They actually belong to their own taxonomic category called Ailuridae. "Trash Pandas" makes sense because raccoons share the black ...

"We cannot rule out that they may have contributed to the untimely death of [its] mother, just five days earlier." ...

Fireworks likely caused the death of a baby red panda at Edinburgh Zoo after she became so stressed that she choked on her own vomit, experts from the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS ...

The red panda (Ailurus fulgens) was initially considered a relative of the raccoon because of its ringed tail, and was later thought to be related to bears. The species is now known to be in a ...

Red panda: Endangered in the wild, its survival looks precarious The red panda is not one species but two, according to DNA evidence. Already endangered due to hunting and habitat loss ...

Four-month-old red panda cubs Fred and George were unveiled ... For example, she said, they have the hips of a bear, physical markings of a raccoon and can retract their claws like a feline.