The Red Panda Rescue: How Darjeeling Zoo Is Protecting the Himalayas’ Rarest Inhabitant

The Red Panda Rescue: How Darjeeling Zoo Is Protecting the Himalayas’ Rarest Inhabitant

Remember Master Shifu from Kung Fu Panda, Po’s wise teacher who helps him on his journey and, in pop culture, has immortalised the words ‘inner peace’?  Did you know his character is based on an animal that many call ‘the original panda’? With a more fox or raccoon-like appearance, the red panda was first described in 1825, decades before the discovery of the black-and-white roly-poly bear that comes to mind when we think of pandas.   So, what i…