WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A red panda that spent two days on the lam after escaping from an Australian zoo was recaptured Sunday after he was spotted hanging out in a fig tree in a nearby park.

Fossils show that raccoon-like red pandas and bearish giant pandas, ... Two Evolutionary Paths Lead to One Panda Grip. L.A. Times Archives. ... used a false thumb to climb trees.

Adira, a 2-year-old red panda, used her climbing skills to scale a tree into a neighboring enclosure, San Diego Zoo officials told local outlet CBS 8. Zoo officials could not immediately be ...

SAN DIEGO — A red panda named Adira briefly escaped her open-air enclosure on Sunday — by climbing an adjacent tree — before zoo employees were able to lure her back to the habitat, a zoo ...

Despite sharing the “panda” name, red pandas and giant pandas are completely different species. From their diets and habitats to their family trees, this side-by-side comparison reveals just ...

This allowed them to look for unexpected similarities in the panda genomes that might be suggestive of convergent evolution. They identified 70 genes that seemed to be likely culprits.

A red panda escaped from an Australian zoo just days after arrival. Ravi, just 7 years old, managed to break out of the zoo and was found in a fig tree at a nearby park.

Ravi, a 7 year old red panda, sits in a tree near the zoo he escaped from days earlier, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022, in Adelaide, Australia. AP Officials managed to capture the animal after using a ...

Adira, a 2-year-old Red Panda, "escaped" her habitat by climbing up a tree. Guests watched as zookeepers worked to persuade Adira back to her enclosure.

An evolutionary tree depicting the relationships of carnivores with false thumbs. The grey circles denote the hypothesized origin of sesamoid thumbs in the bear and red panda lineages. From Salesa ...

June 20 (UPI) --A zoo in Poland revealed a red panda escaped from his enclosure and climbed a nearby tree, eliciting a visit from firefighters.The Gdańsk Zoo said in a Facebook post that keepers ...

Named Ravi, the 7-year-old panda had arrived at Adelaide Zoo last week after he was brought in from another zoo with hopes that he would pair up with a female red panda named Mishry. But by Friday ...