The Red Panda
Laila Coleman
Population You Ask?
❖ Well first nothing is being done to increase the red
pandas, absolutely depressing huh? Yeah I know
❖ There really isn't any Techniques used to count
the population of the red panda but there are only
10,000 of them
Human Impact?? Why are they endangered??
❏ Red pandas are endangered because their primary loss and
degradation habitat loss is primarily attributed to logging, grazing
livestock, demand for firewood, human encroachment and farming.
❏ Human impact: Red pandas are often killed when they get caught in
traps meant for other animals such as wild pigs and deer
❏ Human can help save red pandas if they stop with the forest fires and
the traps made for other animals
Where do they live?
❖ Red pandas live in the Eastern Himalayas in places like China,
Nepal, and Bhutan.
But they spend most of their time in trees.
❖ They live in high-altitude, temperate forests with bamboo
understories in the china and other high mountains around the
area
What the eat? How/what/or who would the effect?
❏ Red pandas leaves occasionally they would eat fruit, insects, bird
eggs and small lizards, too.
❏ But their favorite type of leaves are bamboo leaves they mostly eat
shoots, acorns, and flowers
❏ Their extinction would affect the survival of the predators that rely on
them for their survival
❏ Red pandas are omnivore
What Do They Do?
❖ Red Panda are nocturnal they also communicate with whistles
and squeaks.
❖ red pandas aren't awake much during the day they are mostly
active at dawn when the sun rises. They spend much of their
life in trees, climbing from branch to branch in search of food.
Their Behavior?
❏ Mutualism: The red panda has a good relationship with
raccoon.
❏ Competition:some of the red pandas “competition”is with snow
leopards, martens, and humans.
❏ Predation: red pandas has a simple diets which consist of
fruit, insects, bird eggs and small lizards