Where in the US can you pet a red panda?

You get the opportunity to hand feed the red pandas (they eat grapes and biscuits right from your hand, and also bamboo leaves from branches that you hold) and to touch them as well (if the animal allows it). Chattanooga is one of only three locations in North America where you can touch the red panda.



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Red Panda Encounter You may even be able to touch them gently on the back!* It is an experience you will never forget. Please Note: masks and gloves are required for the safety of the animals during this encounter.

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Red Pandas They are most active at dawn and dusk, but with a keen eye you might catch a glimpse of Lucas, Kola, or Adira and her cub sunbathing during the day. Enjoy watching our red pandas in their habitat at Asian Passage, at the San Diego Zoo.

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Former San Diego Zoo panda keeper Dallas Dumont explains that the giant pandas were never expected to remain here forever. “We knew when we started the program that they were not our bears and that they wouldn't be staying… China believes in having their animals retire back in their country.”

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Video: Red panda escapes San Diego Zoo habitat by climbing tree. A red panda climbed a tree and escaped his San Diego Zoo habitat over the weekend but was captured hours later and returned to his home.

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It's the end of an era at the San Diego Zoo as the last two giant pandas will soon leave for China. In an announcement Monday, zoo officials said the pandas, Bai Yun, 27 — a fixture at the zoo for 23 years — and her son, Xiao Liwu, 6, would leave San Diego because a multiyear agreement with the Chinese had ended.

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