Known as red pandas, red bear-cats, fire-fox, Himalayan raccoon, lesser pandas, or simply the “first panda” and “original panda” as western scientists described them in 1825, 50 years before the giant panda discovery in 1869. The red panda’s native territories are the Himalayas in Nepal, India, Bhutan, Myanmar (Burma), and southern China.  It has taken me […]