Red panda gymnastics for Friday

The red panda (Ailurus fulgens, or “shining cat” in Latin) is a denizen of the same bamboo forests of China that harbor the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca, meaning “black and white cat-foot”). They also subsist largely on bamboo leaves, though they’re a bit more omnivorous than their larger relative. Although it’s called the “lesser panda”, […]

Baby pandas at play

I’m back in Chicago, and let’s have some squee to end the week on Friday the 13th. Matthew Cobb came up with this video of juvenile pandas playing on a slide.  This was taken at the Chengdu Panda Center, a place I visited in China about eight years ago. I actually got to pet one! […]

Baby otters for the weekend

There are a gazillion baby otter pictures on the Das Otterhaus site, which, curiously, is from Japan.  Don’t expect the English to be very intelligible, but these otters are from the Osaka Zoo. Go have a look and say “awww. . . “