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Don’t be fooled. The Red Panda’s “cuteness” is simply a reflection of the human tendency to anthropomorphize animals. In reality, the Red Panda is a vicious omnivore, willing to eat (or try to eat) anything it can put into its mouth. Packs of Red Pandas have been know to strip live elk calves to nothing but bone in mere minutes. These predators are primarily nocturnal, and a Red Panda roused from sleep during daylight hours will attack anything that moves, ripping and shredding interlopers with razor-sharp teeth and claws. Red Pandas also are known for their voracious sexual appetites, being one of the few mammals besides humans who copulate outside of estrous. Researchers note that the Red Panda’s mating ritual is little more than a “rape orgy” of aggressive males overpowering and mating with equally-aggressive females. Many Red Pandas die during these sessions, and surviving pandas typically eat the corpses of their fallen pack-mates once the mating has completed.

bolded my favorite parts

fucking hell, I love red pandas

lolllllll. as untrue as this is, it’s still pretty funny to read

okay, okay, you win. 

that was an entirely false comment posted in jest to this article. at least it was entertaining right?

here’s some actual facts about them:

The Red Panda eats mostly bamboo. Like the Giant Panda, it cannot digest cellulose, so it must consume a large volume of bamboo to survive. Its diet consists of about two-thirds bamboo, but they also eat berries, fruit, mushrooms, roots, acorns, lichen, grasses, and they are known to supplement their diet with young birds, fish, eggs, small rodents, and insects on occasion. In captivity they will readily eat meat. Red Pandas are excellent climbers and forage largely in trees. The Red Panda does little more than eat and sleep due to its low-calorie diet.

The Red Panda is a solitary animal, usually seeking a partner only for mating from the end of December to the middle of February. After a gestation period of 112 to 158 days the female gives birth to one to four blind cubs weighing 110-130 g. This occurs between the end of May to the beginning of July. A few days before the birth the female begins to collect material, such as brushwood, grass and sheets, to use for the nest. The nest is normally located in a hollow tree or a rock column.
The eyes are first grey, and after six weeks slowly start to turn dark in colour, becoming fully darkened in about 70 days. The new litter remains at the nest for twelve weeks. After they leave the nest they will remain with their mother, weaning around 6-8 months of age.

The cubs will stay with their mother until the next cubs are born the following summer. The males only very rarely help with the raising of the new generation, and only if they live in pairs or in small groups. Red Pandas start to become sexually mature at about 18 months of age and are fully mature at 2-3 years. Their average lifespan is 8 - 10 years but can reach a maximum of 15 years.

I just imagined a pack of red pandas stripping an elk calf to the bone.

It was so adorable and bloody and I just wanted to pick them up and nuzzle them all to (my) death.