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 * Research:**

1. Where does your animal live, and what are its characteristics?

Locate your animal’s habitat (Where does it live? Does it migrate?)

• Mountain Forests of Bhutan, India, and China. • When the red panda migrates, it migrates without any routes. Female Red Pandas always stay within the central part of the territory and the males patrol their territory. • The Red Panda’s habitat ranges from the temperate forests of the foothills of the Himalayas.

Include all subspecies or varieties of your animal.

• Divided into two subspecies: A.f. styani and A.f. fulgens

Identify at least 10 characteristics that will give an in-depth, accurate description of your animal

• The Red Panda has a gentle and shy personality. • The Red Panda spends most of its time during the day asleep. • The Red Panda is about the size of a domestic cat. • The Red Panda’s body is a bear shape, except for its bushy, ringed tail. • The Red Panda is reddish brown in color • The snout and the ears of the Red Panda are white, and the limbs and stomach are black. • The Red Panda has a flat nose and striped face like a raccoon. • Both female and male Red Pandas look very similar. • The Red Panda is a herbivore. • The Red Panda weighs an average of 7-13 pounds.
 * The Red Panda is a good tree climber and spends most of its time in trees.

2. Where and why is your animal endangered?

Locate where it is endangered (might not be endangered in all its habitats)

• In a mountainous band from Nepal through northeastern India and Bhutan and into China, Laos, and northern Myanmar. • It is extinct in 4 of the 7 Chinese provinces.

Identify the factors, environmental and/or anthropogenic (caused by man) that cause it to be endangered Causes: • Deforestation • Killing for it’s pelt • Illegal trade of live animals • Predation of domestic dogs

Provide statistics and other facts related to its endangerment

• There are about 2,500 Adult Red Panda’s In the world. • They are endangered because of habitat loss.

3. Where is your animal in captivity and/or conserved?

Locate at least two zoos and/or conservation centers where the animal is held. • Zoo Atlanta • Knoxville Zoo • Denver Zoo • Munich Zoo • Sydney Zoo


 * Conservation Center:
 * Red Panda Research Network
 * National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C.

4. What is being done to restore your animal’s populations? Where is it being done?

• One Network, The Red Panda Network is working to restore the Red Panda’s popultions. To help Red Panda’s come out of endangerment they are: • Building the: Panchthar-Ilam-Taplejung Red Panda Protected Forest, located in Eastern Nepal, which will be the world’s first protected area dedicated to Red Panda. • This action is taking place in: Mountain View, CA

• Another place working to protect and conserve the Red Pandas is the National Zoo. The National Zoo is part of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. Their goal is to carry out advanced research and gain scientific knowledge to conserve wildlife.

Locate where research is done on your animal and where efforts are underway to conserve its population (Note: It may be that this is done at the same location(s) you identified in #3)

Identify the experts, leaders, and/or groups guiding the conservation • The Mountain Institute • The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) • Conservation International (CI) • The Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Outline any research and efforts to conserve the population • Endangered Species Act of 1973 protects endangered and threatened wildlife and plants from hunting, collecting, and activities that harm them or their habitats. • Many Endangered Species are protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species- aims to control trade in wild animals. • Some zoos and animal research centers form programs that breed the endangered specie in hopes of returning their offspring to the wild when they’re ready to go back. •


 * Photos**

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/476814831/sizes/s/ Posted By: wallyg

http://flickr.com/photos/26686573@N00/818257025/sizes/s/ Posted by:Brit_2

http://www.flickr.com/photos/photoverulam/138380861/sizes/s/ Posted By: photoverulam

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremiahblatz/1403915023/sizes/s/ Posted By: jeremiahblatz

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tandabat/430952588/sizes/s/ Posted By: tandabat42

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrapplegate/2428022209/sizes/s/ Posted By: mrapplegate

http://www.flickr.com/photos/justjess17/1424172494/sizes/s/ Posted By: justjess17

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilcrabbygal/274456106/sizes/s/ Posted By: Vanessa Pike- Russel

Here is a video of one of the baby Red Panda cubs that was recently born in the Sydney Zoo. Hope you like it! media type="youtube" key="06CbMa0kDr8&hl=en" height="355" width="425"
 * Videos:

Here is a video of a Red Panda in the Bronx Zoo in New York. media type="youtube" key="8zSYIWFQpEk&hl=en" height="355" width="425"**

Check out our Google Earth Tour of the red panda. In the tour you will find where its habitat is, what zoos it is located in, and why it might be endangered.



 * Bibliography (All Resources Used)**

Encyclopedia- Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia Second Edition Volume 14, Editor’s: Michael Hutchins and Devra G. Kleiman

Animal Info.-Red Panda, http://www.animalinfo.org/species Red Panda, http://www.buzzle.com/articles/ Good Council High School -Red Panda http://www.tenan.vuurwerk.nl/reports/ Knoxville Zoo Do The Zoo, http://www.knoxville-zoo.org/redpanda.htm Panda in Zoos http://chinaunique.com/Panda/ Red Pandas, http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/476814831/sizes/s/ Posted By: wallyg http://flickr.com/photos/26686573@N00/818257025/sizes/s/ Posted by:Brit_2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/photoverulam/138380861/sizes/s/ Posted By: photoverulam http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremiahblatz/1403915023/sizes/s/ Posted By: jeremiahblatz http://www.flickr.com/photos/tandabat/430952588/sizes/s/ Posted By: tandabat42 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrapplegate/2428022209/sizes/s/ Posted By: mrapplegate http://www.flickr.com/photos/justjess17/1424172494/sizes/s/ Posted By: justjess17 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilcrabbygal/274456106/sizes/s/ Posted By: Vanessa Pike- Russel
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Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06CbMa0kDr8 Posted By: emjayven http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zSYIWFQpEk Posted By: Mr Jingles79