Yeah, I just hate it when big taxonomy is trying to push their scientific agenda into our language. Can’t even call a racoon a “trash panda” any more because it’ll upset the Chinese!
red pandas belongs in the family ailuridae, which is relared to the raccoon family part of a superfamily including mustelids, and procyonids(raccoons). ancestors fo red pands were carnivores.
Yeah, I just hate it when big taxonomy is trying to push their scientific agenda into our language. Can’t even call a racoon a “trash panda” any more because it’ll upset the Chinese!
[spraying crumbs] exactly!
ive heard giant pandas are not pandas either as the red pandas they were names after are more related to trash pandas.
red pandas belongs in the family ailuridae, which is relared to the raccoon family part of a superfamily including mustelids, and procyonids(raccoons). ancestors fo red pands were carnivores.