Baby Red Panda Bear

The red panda ailurus fulgens is a mammal native to the eastern himalayas and southwestern china.

Baby red panda bear. The red panda is dwarfed by the black and white giant that shares its name. Baby panda bears weigh only 3 to 5 oz and are similar in length and width to a stick of butter. Like these gorilla twins who love each other. Baby red pandas are so unique that they inhabit their own mammal family the ailurus genus in the ailuridae family of mammals.

The red panda has a naturally low birth rate usually single or twin births per year. They build a nest or use hollow tree trunks or small caves to give birth to their newborn. The mother red panda takes care of her cubs until they reach adulthood when the next mating season begins. Baby red pandas are born in an average litter size of one to four babies and are born in the late spring and summer.

Red pandas are able to reproduce at around 18 months of age and are fully mature at two to three years. Red panda bear cub fire fox baby stands new figurine miniature porcelain little critterz lc420. These pandas typically grow to the size of a house cat though their big bushy tails add an additional 18 inches. Zoologists reverently refer to this rare beast as the giant.

Panda bears are the smallest newborn mammal aside from marsupials in relation to the size of the mother panda bear. It is listed as endangered on the iucn red list because the wild population is estimated at fewer than 10000 mature individuals and continues to decline due to habitat loss and fragmentation poaching and inbreeding depression. Except of course two impossibly adorable red pandas like the twin boys born at the detroit zoo this summer. Twins are already special and clearly twin baby animals are the sweetest thing on the planet.

Adults rarely interact in the wild except to mate.