A young animal is not only pleased with the elephants, visitors to the Opel Zoo in the outdoor area-there has also been an animal baby on the outdoor area for the red pandas. However, it still takes a little luck, as the zoo in Kronberg reports. The female young animal named Tian had only recently left the protected throw cave, in which it spent the first months of life. There the parents had taken care of it since the birth on June 24th. Now the mother keeps taking her boy outside, where it trains the climbing in the branches. In China, the red pandas are also called fire foxes – of course because of the characteristic red fur. Chinese is also the name that the zookeepers gave the little panda. Translated in German, Tian Himmels is called. It is clear that this has to do with the main place to stay of the red pandas in the Opel Zoo: they climb up into the trees. The animals mainly eat bamboo. However, it does not have a high nutritional value, so they often rest on the branches to save energy. Red pandas threatened with extinction of the current autumn temperatures, according to the Opel Zoo, and even in German winter, even in German winter it is not cold to them. Because in Asia they live in the mountain forests of the Himalayas in Nepal, Myanmar and China up to 4000 meters high. According to estimates, there are only fewer than 10,000 individuals of the endangered way. The Opel Zoo takes part in a European program in which the breeding Red Pandas is scientifically coordinated. Elephant house, but now often also visible in the outdoor area of the zoo. Together with his mother Kariba and the older elephant cow Lilak. Only dares to get out of the Red Panda Baby Tian.Archiv Opel-Zoo
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