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__Rt115 Red Panda __

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__Description __  There is this creature that is red and looks like a raccoon. What do you think it's called? A red raccoon? No! It's called a red panda! These adorable creatures are relatives to the great panda. But still, this animal gives scientists a migraine. His body and DNA resembles the great panda, but also has a bushy tail that resembles the raccoon. Then, scientists have decided to call these animals relatives to the koalas.

Red pandas start of very small when they are younger, but can grow to be bigger then bears. Their tails will never grow. They are always 18 inches long. When a female has babies, both parents take care of them for 90 days.</range id="461743390_2"> In this time, the young stay very close to their mother. After that, they go off. A female red panda can have <range type="comment" id="461743390_1">one to 200</range id="461743390_1"> babies. That's a lot to take care of!...or maybe not, if they have 1! When they are born, the babies are 42 inches long, and are <range type="comment" id="461743390_3">7 to 14 pounds.</range id="461743390_3"> Red pandas will mostly spend time in trees. Just like a great panda, they like the rainy, high altitude forest habitat. Unlike the great panda though, they have a wider space of territory. They may be massive, but have very little body fat, even if <range type="comment" id="462420942_4">they're carnivores.</range id="462420942_4"> They forage for berries, roots, and such, but they mostly eat meat. <range type="comment" id="462420942_5">These animals eat mountain lions, bears, pugs, and the occasional human.</range id="462420942_5"> Stay away from these adorable yet ferocious animals.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">These animals' mating season is during spring and summer. The males like to show off to the females for attraction. They gather up in big groups for this. You might be asking, "How do they hide from predators?" Well, these animals have the amazing abilities of camouflage! Females are pregnant for about 134 days. So about after the mating season, they have to wait for about a 3rd of a year.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Red pandas live in in Nepal, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Myanmar <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">, and central China... but not for long! Their <range type="comment" id="462420942_2">habitat is expanding, and now there is over 5 million red pandas!</range id="462420942_2"> They are victims of deforestation though, and will soon have to start living on our streets! Most red pandas lead solitary lives. So, thankfully, we won't see them in massive packs.

__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Interesting Facts __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">-Has a bony projection in their wrists <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">-<range type="comment" id="462420942_3">Has claws that can grow to 3 feet</range id="462420942_3"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">-Favorite delicacy are <range type="comment" id="462420942_1">blossoms</range id="462420942_1"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">-There forests are being destroyed by logging and spread of agriculture too <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">-Females only give birth in spring and summer <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">-Live and sleep in trees

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