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• Newborn red pandas are blind, deaf, and have a beige coat, not red or orange. Their birth weight is about 100 g.
• Unlike the giant panda, the lesser panda is selective in its diet, choosing tender bamboo shoots rather than all parts of the bamboo.
• The lesser panda eats up to 5.5 kg of vegetation daily, including more than 1.5 kg of leaves and 4 kg of young bamboo shoots.
• The lesser panda's molars have numerous cusps, allowing it to chew fibrous vegetation.
• The digestive tract of the lesser panda is similar to that of a carnivore. Therefore, the animal's body absorbs no more than a quarter of the energy contained in the eaten bamboo leaves.
• The lesser panda has a mask-like pattern around its eyes, similar to that of raccoons, and it is unique to each individual.
• The lesser panda cannot digest cellulose, so it eats bamboo more eagerly than leaves.
• Usually, 1–2 cubs are born to the red panda, but sometimes there are four. However, rarely more than one survives to independence.