How big does a Red panda get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Red panda (Ailurus fulgens) reaches an average size of 58.3 cm (1′ 11″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 14 years, they grow from 104 grams (0.23 lbs) to 5.17 kg (11.4 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Red pandas have 2 babies about 1 times per year. The Red panda (genus: Ailurus) is a member of the family Ursidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The red panda (Ailurus fulgens) is a mammal species native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. It is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List because the wild population is estimated at fewer than 10,000 mature individuals and continues to decline due to habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching, and inbreeding depression. Despite its name, it is not closely related to the giant panda.The red panda has reddish-brown fur, a long, shaggy tail, and a waddling gait due to its shorter front legs; it is roughly the size of a domestic cat, though with a longer body, and is somewhat heavier. It is arboreal and feeds mainly on bamboo, but also eats eggs, birds, and insects. It is a solitary animal, mainly active from dusk to dawn, and is largely sedentary during the day. It is also called the lesser panda, the red bear-cat, and the red cat-bear.The red panda is the only living member of the genus Ailurus and the family Ailuridae. It has previously been placed in the raccoon and bear families, but the results of phylogenetic analysis provide strong support for its taxonomic classification in its own family, Ailuridae, which is part of the superfamily Musteloidea, along with the weasel, raccoon and skunk families. Traditionally it was thought to consist of two subspecies. However, results of genetic analysis indicate that there are probably two distinct red panda species, the Chinese red panda and the Himalayan red panda, which genetically diverged 0.22 million years ago.
Animals of the same family as a Red panda
We found other animals of the Ursidae family:
- Giant panda with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Asian black bear with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Polar bear with a size of 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- Brown bear with a size of 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
- American black bear with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Sun bear with a size of 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Spectacled bear with a size of 1.77 meter (5′ 10″)
- Sloth bear with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
Animals with the same size as a Red panda
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red panda:
- Silvery gibbon with a size of 67.6 cm (2′ 3″)
- Verreaux’s sifaka with a size of 47.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- African palm civet with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur with a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Bald uakari with a size of 54.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Southern tree hyrax with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Maned sloth with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Arctic hare with a size of 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Golden palm civet with a size of 48.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Pale-throated sloth with a size of 54.8 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red panda
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Red panda:
- Tolai hare
- Champion’s tree mouse
- Plantain squirrel
- Pampas cat
- Fawn hopping mouse
- Fraser’s musk shrew
- Eastern gray squirrel
- Cameroon clawless otter
- Pygmy marmoset
- Lundomys
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Red panda
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Red panda:
- Harnessed bushbuck with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Black-footed mongoose with an average maximal age of 15.83 years
- Grey rhebok with an average maximal age of 12.25 years
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Silver dik-dik with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Malayan civet with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Leopard cat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Northern bat with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Iberian ibex with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Red slender loris with an average maximal age of 16.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red panda
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ailurus fulgens:
- Gray dorcopsis with a weight of 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs)
- Greater mouse-deer with a weight of 5.25 kilos (11.57 lbs)
- Blue duiker with a weight of 4.9 kilos (10.8 lbs)
- Red fox with a weight of 4.83 kilos (10.65 lbs)
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth with a weight of 5.7 kilos (12.57 lbs)
- Bicolored-spined porcupine with a weight of 4.49 kilos (9.9 lbs)
- European wildcat with a weight of 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs)
- Red-handed howler with a weight of 6.17 kilos (13.6 lbs)
- Parma wallaby with a weight of 4.16 kilos (9.17 lbs)
- Black dorcopsis with a weight of 6.2 kilos (13.67 lbs)