| Recent DNA analysis indicates that giant pandas are more closely related to bears and red pandas are more closely related to raccoons. |
| For example, carnivorous mammals' descendants that now shun meat include bamboo-eating pandas and termite-slurping aardwolves. |
| They can then use captive-bred pandas to increase the numbers where needed. |
| Trading standards chiefs found street sellers peddling the furry pandas, rabbits, cats and dogs in Rochdale and Oldham. |
| There, on a steeply sloping site, we saw animals ranging from fierce tigers and lions to some very cute red pandas. |
| However, unlike the black bear, giant pandas do not hibernate and cannot walk on their hind legs. |
