大象传媒

The red panda's strongholds are in the mountains of south west China, but it has spread west along the Himalayas as far as central Nepal. The forests on the southern face of the Himalayas have been a corridor for creatures like this. Most of the time, red pandas are solitary. As they move through the forest, they make trails with scent from a gland in their posterior. This marks out their territory, and perhaps it helps them find one another in the mating season. They spend most of their time in the trees, living in dense forests from 1,500 metres upwards, and they鈥檙e mainly nocturnal so it's unusually lucky to see one during the day. Like the giant panda, they eat bamboo shoots, but they take a lot else besides: fruit, insects, even birds eggs.