for all you animal lovers, can these things be any cuter???

[tboy]

never heard of them before...red pandas???

https://www.dogwork.com/rep7/

 

[BlueBalls]

Cute things.

 

[Nova5]

Tboy, I enjoyed the vid. I must say I have never heard of red pandas either.

 

[Abraham]

Nice

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

That's a new one on me too.

 

[tboy]

kind of like a cross between a fox, a cat and a bear......cute little buggers aren't they?

 

[Cycleguy007]

Kinda looks like a fat furry raccoon...

 

[Baron]

They for sale :neutral:

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

They for sale :neutral:

How much bamboo do you have?

 

[tboy]

How much bamboo do you have?

Like the giant panda, they need a LOT since they can't digest cellulose. You kind of have to wonder just how "good" mother nature is to have an animal evolve to have a diet of a material that it can't digest very well.

Plus bamboo doesn't have much of a caloric value so they have to eat lots of it. You'd think they'd evolve to increase their diet of better food.

I'm actually surprised people haven't attempted to domesticate these critters. I know I'd have one in a heart beat. they seem like real characters although their being nocturnal by nature would be a bit of a pain lol.....

 

[Kyra.Graves]

They are very beautiful animals, I've only been lucky enough to see them once at a zoo that has a captive breeding program. They are on the endangered species list and unless people start working towards protecting their habitat it's not likely they will survive, they are a very specialized species (much like the giant panda) and the bamboo forests they need to survive are rapidly disappearing.
https://www.wwfnepal.org/our_solutions/thematic_solutions_nepal/species_nepal/red_panda/

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

I'm actually surprised people haven't attempted to domesticate these critters. I know I'd have one in a heart beat. they seem like real characters although their being nocturnal by nature would be a bit of a pain lol.....

Maybe you could adopt one. Got be cheaper than a family from Ethiopia,lol.

 

[tboy]

Maybe you could adopt one. Got be cheaper than a family from Ethiopia,lol.

I dunno, they need a LOT of bamboo and a family from ethiopia only need a cracker each a day......