I have to admit that along with Sun Bear's and the original Giant Pandas themselves this is one of my favourite animals in this zoo.

These smallish (raccoon size perhaps ?) mammals are delightful. Very cute faces, non-aggressive, little fear of humans and fantastically agile climbers. There was a funny confrontation with a squirrel when the Red Panda climbed up one of the trees in their compound - with nowhere to go to get away from the Panda the squirrel jumped what must easily have been at least 15 - 20' (ca. 5-6m) on to the roof of the indoor housing to escape !

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All but one shot is from yesterday's walk through the zoo with my wife, using K7 with an M42 MF CZJ Electric Sonnar 135/3.5

#1 - Spotted those berries !
#2 - Here I come !
#3 - The first mouthful
#4 - and the second ...
#5 - those look better, but will the branch take my weight !

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[Frogfish]

#6 - a veritable banquet !
#7 - he (this one was slightly larger than what I assumed was the smaller female) was absolutely shattered and out of breath after all that climbing and hanging on small branches to get to the best berries !
#8 - A well deserved snooze after expending all that energy !

[knumbnutz]

Lovely Shots. Cute and cuddly ?
Well done.
Cheers Neil

[eaglem]

They look cute but not sure I'd like to handle one! Very good series of shots.

[fractal]

In Chengdu, Home of Zoo Panda, you can hold them for 50 kuai ($7).