Do you know Red Panda are found in India?
If anybody as a doubt about it... kindly take note of it!!! The Red Panda is a rare animal and because of its reclusive arboreal nature and the difficult terrain in which it lives, accurate estimates of the Red Panda population
are hard to arrive at. It is estimated that there are about 2,500 Red Pandas left in the wild. Red Panda are basically called as "Fire Cat"is a tree dwelling mammal, which looks like a raccoon, with its bushy tail and whiteand black markings across its face.
There are two species of Red Panda. One subspecies is found only in China, while the subspecies found in India is also found in parts of Southern China. In India Red Pandas are found in the sub Himalayan states of North East India - Sikkim, West Bengal and Arunachal Pradesh. The Red Panda weighs 3-6 Kg and is covered with red fur. It grows to a length of 50-60 cm with a 20-50 cm long tail. It looks like a raccoon, with white tipped ears, white markings on its face, long whiskers and a bushy striped tail. Its paws are equipped for grasping the stems of bamboo plants and twigs of trees. It has a strong jaw to help it chew bamboo and en extended pad on the sole of the forepaw and the first digit of its paw to help it grasp bamboo while eating and in climbing up trees.
The Red Panda, despite having a digestive system more suited to a carnivorous diet, subsists primarily on bamboo.Its diet also includes fruit, roots, acorns, lichen, grasses, and berries and Red Pandas are known to supplement their diet with young birds, eggs, small rodents, and insects on occasion.Captive Red Pandas readily eat meat.The loss of habitat as well as human population pressure on wildlife reserves in India is a matter of concern for Red Panda populations in India. The fragmentation of their habitat due to human encroachment, deforestation for agricultural reasons, firewood collection and logging for timber and the effect of domestic livestock species on the bamboo forests has led to the decline of Red Panda populations.
posted by Rishil Babu @ 4:13 AM,
