Physical Adaptations- - Large wrist bones that act as thumbs for climbing and grabbing food. - Large tails help for balance and also act as a heat insulator and a pillow. - Small body, good for climbing trees, makes them agile. - Sharp claws for climbing. - 38 teeth including canines, the red panda is technically a carnivore, but has a herbivorous diet including bamboo. - Feet are covered with a woolly fur to keep warm and also to help climbing wet trees. - Rotating ankles, to help downward climbing.
Behavioral Adaptation- - Nocturnal, eat at night. - Solitary animals except during mating season, spend most of their time in trees. - Territorial: as soon as they wake up, they rub themselves on trees and observe their territory. - When it feels danger, it usually escapes into the tree, but if it can't, it raises on its hind legs to appear bigger. - Communicates with whistles, twitters, and hisses. It also uses gestures like arching its tail.
Both- - It protects itself from harm. - They eat at night but will normally eat plants. - They use tree a lot to protect themselves.