The difference between giant pandas and red pandas

Many people can't tell the difference between the red panda and the giant panda, thinking that the red panda is a young giant panda. Although the red panda and the giant panda have the same name as panda, they are also mammals carnivores. In fact, they are two different animals, but they have certain relatives. Let's take a look at the difference between the giant panda and the red panda.

Family and Genus Differences between Giant Panda and Red Panda

1. Giant panda: Giant panda belongs to animal kingdom, chordate phylum, vertebrate phylum, mammal class, euthera, carnivora, schizopoda, giant panda family and giant panda genus.

2. Red panda: Red panda is a small mammal belonging to animal kingdom, chordate phylum, vertebrate phylum, mammal class, euthera, carnivora, schizopoda, red panda family and red panda genus.

The difference between giant panda and red panda

1. Giant panda: Giant panda is fat like bear, plump and rich, with round head and short tail, head body length of 1200~1800 mm and tail length of 100~12 mm. Weight 80~120 kg, the heaviest up to 180 kg, breeding pandas slightly heavier, generally male individuals slightly larger than females. Head and body hair color black and white distinct, but black is not pure black, white is not pure white, but black through brown, white with yellow.

2. Red panda: Red panda looks like a cat, bigger than a cat, reddish-brown all over, round face, shorter snout, white stripes on cheeks. Ears are large and straight forward. The limbs are short and thick, dark brown. The tail is long, thick and fluffy, and has 12 red and dark ring patterns, dark brown tail tip, high and round skull.

Distribution difference between giant panda and red panda

1. Giant panda: Giant panda is an endemic species in China, distributed in Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places in China, including Qinling Mountains, Minshan Mountains, Qionglai Mountains, Daxiangling Mountains, Xiaoxiangling Mountains and Liangshan Mountains.

2. Red panda: The original species of red panda are distributed in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and other places. They are more common in the east of the origin, especially along the border between Yunnan and Myanmar, but they are not common species. China is mainly distributed in Xizang (southern slope of Himalayas), Yunnan, Sichuan and so on.

Differences in feeding habits between giant pandas and red pandas

1. Giant panda: 99% of the food of giant panda is bamboo, and there are more than 60 kinds of bamboo plants belonging to 12 genera that can be eaten by giant panda. In addition, wild giant pandas occasionally eat some animal carcasses or other plants. Giant pandas like to eat many kinds of bamboo, recipes vary with mountain series and seasons, in different seasons to eat different kinds of bamboo or different parts of the same bamboo, spring and summer most like to eat different kinds of bamboo shoots, autumn mostly bamboo leaves as the staple food, winter bamboo stalks as the staple food.

2. Red panda: Red panda likes to eat bamboo shoots, twigs and leaves, all kinds of wild fruits, leaves, moss, birds or bird eggs and other small animals, insects, etc., especially sweet food. There are many grass-green droppings in the active places. Like raccoons, they like to clean. They defecate in fixed places. After eating, they rub their faces with their palms or wash their mouths with their tongues.