My first animal will be a red panda. Red pandas live in the Himalayas. They love to eat bamboo, grass, roots, fruit & acorns. They are relatives of raccoons and they are relatives of bears, but they are closer to raccoons than bears. They live in hollowed out logs and holes that are already in the stone and they dig the gravel out. They are my favorite animals. There is one at the Turtleback Zoo if you want to see it with your own eyes. You can also see two at the Bronx Zoo and you can see one at the Central Park Zoo.

Red Pandas are the size of an ocelot. Red pandas are herbivores.