It was at the Cincinnati Zoo last weekend that I finally figured out what it must have been that died in the power lines that cross over my backyard. It was a Red Panda… This photo was taken at the zoo, and it’s almost identical to what was behind our house, before the men from the power company came and poked it down in giant chunks.
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Red Pandas are also known as “Fire foxes.” Perhaps your power company would prefer you use Internet Explorer in the future?
“The Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens Latin “fire colored cat”) or Lesser Panda, is a mostly herbivorous cat-sized (60 cm long) mammal. Its classification is uncertain. It was formerly classified in the raccoon family (Procyonidae), but now many experts, including Wilson and Reeder (1993), classify it as a member of the bear family (Ursidae) or in its own family the Ailuridae. It is native to the Himalayas and southern China. Fossil evidence suggests that it once also existed in North America.”
I think we can close the books on this one.
was it a sexual harrasment panda?
/hat tip southpark
I wish I had photos of the thing in my back yard before it was knocked off the wires. It really looked just like this.
If that hunk of whatever was a red panda then there is a zoo out there missing an animal…or he traveled a very long way to die in your backyard. What is so special about your backyard? ;-)
Maybe Cadillac camped there.
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