The post The Firefox Mystery: Why the Red Panda Is the World’s Loneliest Species appeared first on A-Z Animals. For nearly two centuries, the true classification of the red panda was a mystery.

Just weeks after announcing the arrival of a new red panda, the Oregon Zoo shared that a second red panda has arrived at the zoo.

There are two distinct species of red panda, the Himalayan red panda and the Chinese red panda. Thumb structures, skull shapes, and coloration led scientists to classify red pandas into the wrong ...