The Red Pandas
By Lucy Kilkenny
24 July Friday 2015
I am learning to inform my audience through an information report.
What’s red, brown, has white on their face and has a black under belly and can be known as the fire cat? Thats right, the Red Panda. Red Pandas aren’t actually known as Pandas, they have been classified to be known as small bears. Did you know that the Red Panda’s scientific name is Ailurus fulgens but their higher classification name is Ailurus? The Red Panda communicates with squeaks, chattering noises, and chipmunk-like sounds. The average lifespan of the Red Panda is about eight to twelve years long, but Red Pandas can live longer in captivity. Red Pandas are nocturnal, which means they like to hunt and prowl around in the night. 
Red Panda’s behaviour is that they normally act solitary towards each other and can have a short experience of a relationship during the annual breeding season of the Red Pandas. The innate behaviours are instincts that the Red Pandas are normally born with, and one is that they have short mating relationships. Red Pandas like to imagine that they are large, vicious, carnivorous mammal hunters, even though they are Omnivores.
Diet:
Red Pandas are known as Omnivores, (Omnivores are animals that only eat plants, leaves and grass). A Red Panda’s favourite food is bamboo, but they specifically like the tender bamboo shoots. They chew the bamboo into pieces that fit into their mouths, whereas the giant pandas barely chew it at all, But when the weather is warm they also like to eat small insects and fruit, as well as berries, blossom bird eggs and small lizards too. When food is scarce they can spend up to 13 hours a day just looking for food.
Habitat:
Red pandas don’t just live in forests, in fact they are also found in Nepal, Northern Myanmar, specifically Burma as well as in Central China, Red Pandas spend most of their lives in trees and even like to sleep aloft. Red Pandas can also be found in zoos in such as Auckland, Wellington and Hamilton, Red Pandas share part of their range with the Giant 
Pandas. Red Pandas like to live in cool temperatures of bamboo forests the biggest
is habitat loss.
In conclusion Red Pandas like to act as if they are large, vicious, carnivorous mammal hunters, When the weather is warmer they like to eat different foods from when it’s cooler temperatures. Red Pandas act solitary towards each other, they don’t just live in forest they can be found in Nepal, Northern Myanmar (Burma), in bamboo forests their scientific name is Ailurus fulgens and their higher classification name is Ailurus. Also Red Pandas are Vulnerable which means they are a threatened species.
