Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Red panda


The red panda has been previously classified in the families Procyonidae(raccoons) and Ursidae(bears), but recent research has placed  it in it's own family Ailuridae, in sub family Musteloidea along with  Mustelidae  and Procyonidae.
The red panda lives between 2,200 and 4,800m(7,200 and 15,700 ft) altitude, inhabiting are of moderate temperature between 10 and 25 degree Celsius per 50 and 77 degree Fahrenheit. It services eating grass, fruits, bamboos leaves and new shoot of reeds.Now a days it was killed for of its beautiful furry leather.Its at the verge  extinction.
                               SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION 

                          Kingdom:    Animalia
                          Phylum   :   Chordata
                            Class    :   Mammalia
                          Order     :   Carnivora
                      Suborder    :    Caniformia
                     Infraorder    :    Arctoidea
                 Superfamily     :     Musteloidea
                         Family     :    Ailuridae
                        Genus      :     Ailurus
                      Species      :    A .fulgens

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