Red Panda: Biology and Conservation of the First Panda

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Название: Red Panda: Biology and Conservation of the First Panda

Автор: Angela R. Glatston

Издательство: Willi.m Andr.w

Год: 2009

Страниц: 468

ISBN: 437778135

Формат: PDF

Размер: 11 MB

Язык Английский

Red Panda: Biology and Conservation of the First Panda provides a broad-based overview of the biology of the red panda, Ailurus fulgens. A carnivore that feeds almost entirely on vegetable material and is colored chestnut red, chocolate brown and cream rather than the expected black and white. This book gathers all the information that is available on the red panda both from the field and captivity as well as from cultural aspects, and attempts to answer that most fundamental of questions, "What is a red panda?" Scientists have long focused on the red panda's controversial taxonomy. Is it in fact an Old World procyonid, a very strange bear or simply a panda? All of these hypotheses are addressed in an attempt to classify a unique species and provide an in-depth look at the scientific and conservation-based issues urgently facing the red panda today.