This is not a panda. So why does the whole world call it one?
Meet the red panda, from the Himalayas. It is not a bear, and it is not a raccoon — it is the only living member of its own family, Ailuridae. It had the panda name first, nearly fifty years before the giant panda. About 95% of its diet is bamboo, which it grips with a false thumb — a wrist bone that works like a sixth finger. Its bushy tail is almost as long as its body and doubles as a blanket on cold nights. Red pandas are Endangered, with fewer than 10,000 left in the wild.
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