A pair of red pandas were born at the Franklin Park Zoo in
Boston, MA on July 4. The male and female cubs will be on public
view by the end of October. Until then, the cubs will remain in
a nest box with their mother. In the wild, red pandas inhabit
bamboo forests in China, the Himalyas, and Myanmar. The IUCN has
classified them as vulnerable for extinction with fewer than
10,000 mature red pandas alive in the wild. Threats to the red
panda include habitat loss and fragmentation as well as
poaching.