Description
Red Panda: Biology and Conservation of the First Panda provides a broad-based overview of the biology of the red panda, Ailurus fulgens. A carnivore that feeds almost entirely on vegetable material and is colored chestnut red, chocolate brown and cream rather than the expected black and white. This ebook gathers all the information that is available on the red panda both from the field and captivity as well as from cultural aspects, and attempts to answer that most fundamental of questions, “What is a red panda?” Scientists have long focused on the red panda’s controversial taxonomy. Is it in fact an Old World procyonid, a very strange bear or simply a panda? All of these hypotheses are addressed in an attempt to classify a unique species and provide an in-depth look at the scientific and conservation-based issues urgently facing the red panda today. 488 p.
Series:
- Angela R. Glatston, Editor. Curator of Mammals and Conservation Coordinator of the Rotterdam Zoo. Royal Rotterdam Zoological and Botanical Garden, Rotterdam (The Netherlands).
- Publication date (digital version): 2010-11 – Academic Press (imprint of Elsevier); Copyright © 2011 by Elsevier Inc.
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