What is a red panda? What is a lesser panda?
The red panda, sometimes called the lesser panda, is a raccoon-sized mammal that lives in the same kind of habitat as giant pandas but over a larger area in Asia. Its fur is reddish and it eats bamboo. Scientists aren’t sure what the red pandas’ nearest relatives are. Some say raccoons and other species in the family Procyonidae; others say bears in the family Ursidae.
