Red Panda
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Red pandas mostly eat bamboo.
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They eat fruit acorns, grass, nuts, flowers, berries,
roots and eggs too.
They even eat insects, birds and chicks.
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Red pandas can spend 13 hours a day looking for
and eating bamboo.
Ho w r e d p a n d a s go t t he i r na me ?
The red panda has a catlike face. This has earned them a name
"firecolored cat."
The name "panda" comes from the Nepalese word poonya, which means
"eater of bamboo."
Some f a c t s a b ou t r e d pa nd a s
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Over the winter red pandas often lose up to 15% of their
body weight.
They live 8 to 14 years in the wild.
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They are not bears.
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There are a red panda on Mozilla Firefox's logo and it's
name is taken from red panda's name too.
They are quite rare.
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Us e d l i t e r a t u r e
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda
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http://animals.nationalgeographic
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