For International Red Panda Day, we"re hanging out on a tree limb with this cutie in the Chengdu Panda Base of Sichuan, China. If you spot a red panda in the wild, consider yourself lucky. Not only will you have to travel far (they live in the mountain forests of Nepal, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, and India), but there are fewer than 10,000 wild red pandas, and they"re rather elusive, hanging out up in trees. They also spend more than half their day asleep, conserving energy for—you guessed it—eating bamboo leaves. They spend a whopping 13 hours a day eating.
Hanging out on a limb
Today in History
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St. Paul Winter Carnival
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Climb a tree for wild animals and plants
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National Mountain Climbing Day
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The Crown of the Continent
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A wild, craggy corner of the United States
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A courtyard scene from Spain
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Where the glow of the holidays lingers
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Remembering the Velvet Revolution
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Wildlife crossing, Wierden, Netherlands
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC
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The ‘Night of Nights’
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Red fox
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
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In praise of the old…the very old
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