Scientists have used DNA to find out that the giant panda is more closely related to the other bears than to the raccoons. Giant pandas are in the family Ursidae with the seven other bear species. Raccoons are in the family Procyonidae along with ring-tails and coatis.
Scientists have used DNA to find out that the giant panda is more closely related to the other bears than to the raccoons. Giant pandas are in the family Ursidae with the seven other bear species. Raccoons are in the family Procyonidae along with ring-tails and coatis.
This Park Lets You Hug Pandas. After you make a very large donation, of course. ... The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China, which attracts more than one million visitors a year, offers panda-lovers the opportunity to give one of its pandas a quick squeeze for a hefty “donation” of about $330.Dec 16, 2013
Giant Pandas are wild animals, are an endangered species, and are owned by the People's Republic of China, so it is not legally possible to keep them as pets. Pandas also require a limitless supply of bamboo, so you would have to be made of money or own a bamboo forest.
The reason is because China leases the each panda to zoos for $2 million (in "panda cost and research"). And then there are the habitats the zoos must build, plus the expensive diets they have - oh, and if there's a baby, that's another $600,000 per year.Feb 12, 2006