Which Panda Is It?
Giant pandas and red pandas share a name, a bamboo diet and a wrist bone "false thumb", but they are very different animals. Read each fact and pick giant panda, red panda or both.
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What this game teaches
- The red panda is not a bear: it is the only living member of its own family, Ailuridae.
- The giant panda is listed as Vulnerable and the red panda as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
- Both eat mostly bamboo and both have a "false thumb", an enlarged wrist bone used to grip stems.
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Which Panda Is It? is an original work © 2026 Joshua Israel Ventures LLC.
Sources
- IUCN Red List: Giant panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca (2016 assessment)
- IUCN Red List: Red panda, Ailurus fulgens (2015 assessment)
- Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute: Giant panda
- Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute: Red panda
- Hu et al. (2020), Genomic evidence for two phylogenetic species and long term population bottlenecks in red pandas, Science Advances