Red pandas are especially cute ... time in trees. They have a pseudo-thumb that gives them a better grip on the trees. They can even walk face first down a tree! Each red panda requires up ...

the Red Panda Returns to National Zoo Life in the trees, not bamboo, shaped the panda’s “thumb” Life in the trees, not bamboo, shaped the panda’s “thumb” ...

Yet the term panda originally referred to the red or lesser panda, a tree-dwelling ... resulted in the giant panda being once again placed in the bear family Ursidae, and its typology continues ...