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Viewer Shravan Deshetty thinks that this Red Panda resembles the Mozilla Firefox. Do you agree? Red Panda, the state animal of Sikkim, is also known as the Shining Cat or the Firefox, and in Sikkim as Saknam (by the Lepcha) and Kaala (by the Limbu). The animal typically lives in dense forests, at elevations of 6000 to 16,000 feet, and is a resident of the Himalayan Zoological Park in Gangtok. The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), also called lesser panda and red cat-bear, is a small arboreal mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and south-western China that has been classified as vulnerable by IUCN as its wild population is estimated at less than 10,000 mature individuals. The population continues to decline and is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching, and inbreeding depressi
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