Even so, starting a red panda family can take time because females ... Sundar forcing Khusi from a tree to the ground, trailing her for hours, and then … consummation(s). A few months later ...

Yet the term panda originally referred to the red or lesser panda, a tree-dwelling ... "new panda" - it was thus categorised in the same family as the red panda - the "true panda".

There, moving gracefully along the branch of a tree, was a red panda. The sight was nothing short of magical. It was gently picking a wild variety of kiwi from a fruiting tree and delicately ...

In 2022, Ravi the red panda escaped from the zoo and was missing for two days before staff located him up a tree in the Botanic Park, having to shoot him with a tranquiliser dart to get him down.