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Photos of Burma

Red pandas live solitary lives, except for breeding season, in the rainy mountain forests of Nepal, India, Bhutan, northern Burma, and central China. They spend most of their lives in trees, sleeping, eating, and sunbathing, and their diet is almost entirely made up of leaf tips and tender bamboo shoots. Despite sharing a common name and a love of bamboo, red pandas and giant pandas are not closely related. The name “panda” is believed to come from the Nepali word “ponya,” meaning “bamboo eater.”

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