Red pandas
A pack of crisp noodles! How many Chinese have been misled! Do you also think of the red panda as a little raccoon?
Red pandas, called "red panda" in English, also known as red pandas and firefox, are small arboreal mammals, and their living areas are highly overlapping with giant pandas, and their taste is similar.
Little raccoons, originating from North America, are called raccoons because they love to wash things.
So what is the difference between these two animals?
Crisp noodles
First, the red panda is the only animal in the genus Red Panda in the mammalian family Of The Red Pandas, while the raccoon is an animal of the mammalian order Raccoon family.
Second, the red panda is distributed in southwest China, Nepal, Myanmar and other regions, and is a second-class protected animal in China. Baby raccoons live in regions such as North and Central America.
Third, the body of the red panda is red, the limbs are black, and the overall shape resembles a cat. The baby raccoon is gray overall, and the coat color is black, white and gray.
The tail of the red panda is very long, the coat is very thick, so their legs and claws look very thick and short, while the hair coverage of the small raccoon is relatively low, their claws in order to better grasp and wash food is very small, and the front and back feet have five toes, the toes can also be separated, very flexible.
The face of the red panda is round, the chin is round, the ears are round, the eyes are round, and everywhere is round. Its snout is short, there are white markings on the face, and the ears are large, which looks very cute and cute!
On the other hand, the little raccoons have a pointed face, no eyebrows, and a ring of black hair around the eyes, which looks like they have an eye mask! Coupled with their big eyes, an indescribable temperament came over them!
Little raccoon
Fourth, like their neighbor giant pandas, red pandas also love to eat bamboo! Bamboo leaves, bamboo shoots, and various wild fruits and leaves are the food of the red panda. (Maybe they all evolved to eat bamboo because they were too lazy to hunt.)
At the same time, they have not given up eating meat like giant pandas, like birds and some small insects are in the red panda's diet.
It is worth mentioning that red pandas especially like to eat sweets!
Zoo staff once did experiments, if the red pandas are fed apples and bamboo shoots at the same time, they will choose apples for the first time, and then reluctantly go to nibble bamboo! And some synthetic sugars are also quite popular with red pandas!
According to studies, sucralose and aspartame are the favorite sugars of red pandas, because this ability also makes red pandas the only non-primates that can eat aspartame besides monkeys and humans.
Is the red panda's love of sugar because it is hungry?
This is really not, the wild pandas will eat a lot of berries every autumn, and the rich sugars in these fruits can replenish the energy of the red pandas. And red pandas have a sweet receptor gene in their bodies, so they can feel sweetness very sensitively.
Speaking of small raccoons, although they are carnivorous animals, they are more omnivorous and like to eat birds, mice, and bugs. And they don't pick like fruits, nuts, and bread. In short, I love to eat everything!
In addition, because of its good swimming, the little raccoon will also catch fish in the river to eat. But with habitat destruction, baby raccoons now prefer to go to crowded places to make a living, and it is common to rummage through garbage cans in the middle of the night, which is called "mysterious thief" by Canadians.
Fifth, the little raccoon loves to be clean, and everything must be washed in water, whether it is eaten or used! Many families that raise baby raccoons will give them the task of cleaning vegetables and fruits, and properly set up working children. Of course, it is also common for mobile phones to be taken to the water by small raccoons to wash.
Does that little raccoon really love to wash things because he loves to be clean?
Little raccoon doing laundry
In fact, there are many sensory nerves on the paws of small raccoons, and their act of cleaning things is actually just to confirm whether the things on their hands can be or not, and water can help them collect more sensory information.
So little raccoons really don't love to wash things because they love to be clean, just to better perceive food.
On the contrary, the red pandas really love to be clean! They lick the edges of their mouths with their tongues after eating, and they also pull poop in a fixed place, and wipe their ass when they have finished. Isn't it very clean!
Sixth, when it comes to the breeding of the raccoon, we have to mention the survival status of it and the red panda, the red panda is currently an endangered species, only 3000 to 5000 in China, coupled with the rampant poaching, the survival situation of the red panda is very worrying.
The baby raccoon is a non-hazardous species, which is very much in North America, and from time to time there are raccoons that go out to steal things from human settlements. And there are also many local families that raise small raccoons.
From this point, we can also see that the courage of the little raccoon is actually very large, and the red pandas in the zoo are often even scared by the keepers, and one who does not pay attention to it will scare it!
Now do you understand that the little raccoon is simply printed on the face, not the little raccoon but the improved red panda!
Some people on the Internet have said that the best way to distinguish between the two is to hold one back to raise, if you are caught, it is a red panda! It's okay to be a raccoon!
Of course, this is just a joke. In real life, it is difficult to see wild red pandas, and the only way to see them is to go to the zoo.
Red pandas are really cute, love to eat apples and bamboo, like to sleep with their tails rolled up, and like to play in the snow, stand up to scare people, and fight to make you look bloody! If you lose, you will cry your nose.
However, the presence of red pandas is really low, and every time you go to the zoo, you can see a bunch of people shouting around them, little raccoon! Little raccoon!
But whenever someone shouts out the name of the red panda, someone will come out to refute it! This is not a red panda! Pandas are black and white.
You see, even the panda cubs can easily snatch away the names of the red pandas, you say how difficult they are!
Here Zhu Jun has to mention that many people like to carry a bag of human food to feed the wild animals in the zoo when they go to the zoo.
Not to talk about food safety now, are these things really something that wild animals can eat?
In order to meet the happy needs of children or individuals at home, take the safety of wild animals as a joke, how can you bear it!
Moreover, we have deprived wild animals of their homes and freedoms, so why should we mutilate them! The earth's biological system is not unique to human beings, and if we continue like this, we will surely taste the bitter fruit of ourselves.
Giant panda and its neighbor red panda
Speaking of baby raccoons, many people say they are obscene, like to steal things in the middle of the night, and attack domestic cats and dogs.
But isn't it the expansion of human habitation, the homelessness of the little raccoon forcing itself into the human habitation?
It is undeniable that the survival of the little raccoons is successful, they not only enter the territory of humans, but also learn to understand traffic, avoid vehicles, they will screw bottle caps, they will help humans work, and of course, they will especially rummage through garbage cans. In order to survive, they learned a lot and sacrificed a lot.
Here, Zhu Jun also wants to remind friends who want to treat the little raccoon as a pet, the little raccoon is not a social animal, and the narrow environment and close relatives of humans will cause pressure on them.
And they will attack their owners, bite cats and dogs, and like huskies, they will tear down their homes, and in addition, there are many parasites and viruses on the body of the little raccoon, such as the rabies virus, so they are not good.
We can be kind to them, but don't try to tame them. Everyone has a temper, even an animal.
Finally, do you know the little raccoon and the red panda?
The difference between a baby raccoon and a red panda