What is the difference between a baby raccoon and a red panda?

The families are different. Raccoon: Raccoon is an animal of the genus Raccoon in the family Raccoonidae;Red Panda:

The raccoon has a body length of 40-70 centimeters and weighs between kilograms;Red panda: The red panda is 40-63 cm long and generally weighs about 5 kg.

Distribution and feeding habits of baby raccoons and pandas

Raccoons are mainly found in North America, such as Canada, the United States, and Mexico. It eats a variety of foods, including insects, frogs, and bird eggs, as well as fruits and nuts, and can also go into the water to catch fish, crabs, and mussels.

The raccoon's foraging is very distinctive, mainly relying on its sensitive sense of smell and flexible front paws, its five fingers are very spread out, it can grasp things flexibly, and its front paws have abundant sensory cells that can accurately detect which foods are edible.

In contrast, the red panda seems to be more "mysterious and noble". It mainly lives in remote high-altitude bamboo forests in southwest China, South Asia and Southeast Asia, likes to live alone, is good at climbing trees, and mostly forages in the morning and evening.

In addition, because the red panda is highly specialized in evolution, it has chosen to change from carnivorous to plant-based food (which is similar to the giant panda, which is a picky eater), likes to eat bamboo shoots, twigs and bamboo leaves, and its sense of hearing and vision is not well developed, and its sense of smell is not particularly sensitive, so its foraging ability is far less strong than that of raccoons, and its distribution range is naturally relatively narrow.

There are many differences between baby raccoons and red pandas, and the coat color of baby raccoons and red pandas are also different, and their body sizes are also different.

1. Differences between families and genera: The red panda is an animal of the family Red Panda and the genus Red Panda, also known as the red panda, the red cat bear, the nine-section wolf, and the golden dog;Raccoon generally refers to the North American raccoon, which is a raccoon family and a raccoon genus, also known as food thief and Phi Bear.

2. Appearance difference: The red panda looks like a cat, but it is fatter than a cat, with a reddish-brown body, a round face, a short snout, white markings on the cheeks, and 12 red and dark rings on the tailThe whole body of the raccoon is gray-brown and mixed, and albino varieties can also be seen, with black eye spots on the face, and multiple black and white rings on the tail, about 5 or 7 rings.

3. Size difference: It should be noted that the body length of the red panda is 40 63cm, and the weight is generally about 5 kg;The body length of the raccoon is 40 to 70 cm and the weight is between kilograms.

The difference between a raccoon and a red panda is:

1. The hair is different.

The upper part of the red panda's body is mainly bright reddish-brown, including the tail, while the legs are oily black. The body of the baby raccoon is mainly black, gray and white, and the overall color is dull.

2. The families are different.

Raccoon: Raccoon is an animal of the genus Raccoon in the family Raccoonidae;Red Panda: The red panda is an animal of the genus Red Panda in the family Red Panda family.

3. The size is different.

Raccoon: The raccoon has a body length of 40-70 centimeters and weighs between kilograms. Red panda: The red panda is 40-63 cm long and generally weighs about 5 kg.

4. The head is different.

Raccoon: The raccoon has a ring of dark fur around the eyes on its head, slightly rounded ears, and white fur on top. Red panda: The red panda has a short and broad head with white spots on the upper part of the nose, cheeks, and eyebrows.

5. The tail is different.

Raccoons: Raccoons have black and white rings on their tails, and a few are yellow and white, about 5-7. Red panda: The tail of the red panda is thick and long, cannot be wrapped around objects, and has dark and light rings on the tail.

These two animals have the following differences:

1. The classification is different in the animal kingdom:

Baby raccoons belong to the class Mammals, the subclass of euzoars, the order Carnivora, the suborder Schizopodae, and the animals of the raccoon family; The red panda belongs to the small raccoon, which belongs to the class Mammals, the subclass of eumatria, the order Carnivora, the suborder Schizopoda, and the animals of the family Crimusidae.

Second, the distribution range is different:

Little raccoons are mainly distributed in North America and Central America, but not in China. And the red panda has a distribution in China.

3. Different habitats:

Baby raccoons mostly inhabit tree cavities and belong to arboreal animals; Red pandas, on the other hand, inhabit large tree cavities or stone caves and rock crevices.

Fourth, the coat color is different:

Red pandas have a brighter coat than raccoons, with a reddish-brown color.

Little raccoons <> red pandas.

Red pandas and baby raccoons are very similar in appearance, both are made of two colors, and they are also very similar in appearance and body size. But if you look closely, you'll see that there are clear differences.

The most typical difference between red pandas and baby raccoons is that red pandas are colored, and they are made of orange-red and white; The hair of the little raccoon is black and white, which is not considered a color in fine arts, but a kind of brightness.

The red panda has a wider head and a shorter mouth, which makes it look silly and cute; The baby raccoon has a longer mouth and looks like a monkey gills with a sharp beak. Therefore, some people say: "The cute is the red panda, and the cheap is the little raccoon", and the "cheap" referred to here is only from the analysis of their appearance.

In addition to "bumping faces" with the little raccoon, the red panda also bumped the "name" with the giant panda, so that people think that the red panda and the giant panda are one family, but in fact, they are far away, and if you look into it carefully, the panda originally referred to the red panda, and the giant panda was called the cat bear, and later in the translation process, the cat bear and the panda were written in the wrong order, resulting in the giant panda that should have been called "cat bear" was mistakenly written as "panda", in order to distinguish the big and small pandas, people had to call the original panda "red panda" Nowadays, when people talk about pandas, they refer more to "giant pandas".

Little raccoonsDifferences with red pandas:

1. The types are different.

The baby raccoon is an animal of the mammalian order Carnivorous Raccoonidae. Originated in North America.

Because it washes its food in water before eating, it is called raccoon. The genus Raccoon includes 7 animal species, the model raccoon is found in North and Central America, and the crab-eating raccoon is found in Costa Rica.

To the northern part of South America, the remaining five species are found on various islands.

The red panda is an animal of the family Red Panda and the genus Red Panda. Male and female are similar and there is no dimorphism. Looks like a cat, but is fatter than a cat, and has a reddish-brown body.

A round face with a short snout and white markings on the cheeks. The ears are large and stand upright forward. The limbs are stubby and black-brown.

The tail is long, thick and fluffy, with 12 red and dark rings, and the tip of the tail is dark brown.

2. The color of the fur is different: the panda has reddish-brown fur, and the facial eyebrows, around the mouth and ears are very white, while the raccoon's fur is mostly gray and black.

3. Different living habits: The food that pandas like to eat is bamboo.

Eating meat occasionally, baby raccoons are omnivores.

Eat fish, frogs, wild fruits, nuts, seeds, acorn seeds, etc.

4. Different personalities: red pandas like to chase and play with their companions, and raccoons don't like to play, but they have flexible claws and like to steal people's food.

5. Different families and genera: the red panda is a panda family, and the raccoon is a raccoon family, which is not the same family as the red panda.

6. Different distribution ranges: pandas are distributed in the southwest of China, Myanmar, Bhutan, and Nepal.

In some areas, raccoons live mainly in North America.

7. Different tails: The tail of the red panda is large and fluffy, but the tail of the baby raccoon is shorter.