{"id":362962,"date":"2025-08-21T20:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362962\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:45:11","slug":"pembrokeshire-zoo-welcomes-three-endangered-red-panda-cubs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362962\/","title":{"rendered":"Pembrokeshire zoo welcomes three endangered red panda cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwf.org.uk\/learn\/fascinating-facts\/red-panda\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WWF, external<\/a>, red pandas are not closely related to giant pandas &#8211; often considered the real panda. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The red panda falls under a unique taxonomic group called ailuridae, sharing common traits with mustelids, which includes racoons, weasels and skunks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Giant pandas are classified under a separate, distant taxonomic family of bears called ursidae.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Wilkins said staff were &#8220;keeping a watchful eye over mum and cubs, and all are doing very well&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cubs are just over six weeks old and are starting to develop the more striking markings of their parents, she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are still too young for the staff to risk disturbing them so it&#8217;s not known if the cubs are male or female yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are still being fed milk from mum and will do for the next few weeks and then Betty will reduce the amount of trip to the cubs, encouraging them to come out of the nest and start eating solid food.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said that the cubs will go to other accredited facilities to continue the ongoing captive breeding effort for red pandas when they are old enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the WWF, external, red pandas are not closely related to giant pandas &#8211; often considered the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-362962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115068713245420545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}