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Red panda

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Red panda

Red pandas are popular animals with zoo visitors. They are more closely related to weasels and skunks than to giant pandas. Critically endangered in the wild, red pandas have bred successfully at Wellington Zoo

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Maggy Wassilieff, Zoos and aquariums – Zoo animals and entertainment, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19080/red-panda (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.