#0454 · 🦊 mammals
Red Panda
🇳🇱 Kleine Panda ·Ailurus fulgens
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what is it?
The red panda ( Ailurus fulgens ), also called the lesser panda , the red bear-cat , and the red cat-bear , is a mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. It has reddish-brown fur, a long, shaggy tail, and a waddling gait due to its shorter front legs; it is roughly the size of a domestic cat, though with a longer body and somewhat heavier. It is arboreal, feeds mainly on bamboo, but also eats eggs, birds, and...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 2,275 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs up to about 5 kg.
- Scientifically named by Frédéric Cuvier in 1825 (201 years ago).
- Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Red Panda
- Nederlands
- Kleine Panda
- scientific name
- Ailurus fulgens
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Carnivora
- family
- Ailuridae
- IUCN Red List
- EN · endangered
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,275
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- 5 kg
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1825 by Frédéric Cuvier
IUCN in Dutch: bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 41653, Wikidata Q41960, GBIF 5219446, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.