red panda capital of the world<\/a>.<\/p>\nTwo male red panda cubs were born at Zoo Knoxville in June to resident red pandas Sisu and Doofah.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been close to five years since the last time red panda cubs were born here, and more than a decade since guests have had the chance to see cubs raised by their mother on exhibit,\u201d said Sarah Glass, Zoo Knoxville\u2019s curator of wild ambassadors, in the release.<\/p>\n
In 1977, Zoo Knoxville received its first pair of red pandas, Bernice and Buster. Since 1978, close to 115 cubs have been born at Zoo Knoxville, according to a news release, making the zoo’s red panda breeding program one of the best in the nation.<\/p>\n
For around 15 years, Glass has been the species survival plan coordinator for the red panda, meaning she leads the nationwide management of red pandas in captivity.<\/p>\n
Since then, Knoxville’s status as a red panda haven has grown beyond the zoo and is now embraced around the city, from Red Panda Grocery in the Old City to One Knox, which used a red panda-themed alternate kit in 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a Knoxville thing, a uniquely Knoxville thing,\u201d said Wrenne French, One Knox’s director of merchandise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"See the fuzzy faces of Zoo Knoxville’s newest red panda cubs Zoo Knoxville welcomed two red panda cubs,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[840,28405,28410,1578,18,19,17,28402,28407,526,21835,3136,5,2603,28409,713,856,22340,842,28406,28404,28408,133,1299,4319,716,461,28403,25759],"class_list":{"0":"post-36549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-aquariums","10":"tag-aquariums-u0026-preserves","11":"tag-city","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-knoxville","16":"tag-knoxville-zoo","17":"tag-local","18":"tag-local-affiliate-travel","19":"tag-local-news","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-old","22":"tag-old-city","23":"tag-overall","24":"tag-overall-positive","25":"tag-panda","26":"tag-positive","27":"tag-preserves","28":"tag-red","29":"tag-red-panda","30":"tag-science","31":"tag-tn","32":"tag-travel","33":"tag-u0026","34":"tag-wildlife","35":"tag-zoo","36":"tag-zoos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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