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[terry hallinan]

Pochemunyet,

Pandas belong to the fox family.

Thank you for your response but we are both wrong and can learn something.

From the Smithsonian [https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/red-panda]:

Red pandas are the only living member of the family Ailuridae.

The giant pandas are now classified as bears though they live on bamboo. A bamboo diet seems to be the only connection to red pandas which did look like foxes in newspaper photos but not at all in the Smithsonian photos.

The internet is rife with dated or misinformation denying giant pandas are bears but again from the Smithsonian:

Giant panda:

Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae

Ursidae is the bear family but why bears are placed in the carnivora order is beyond me.

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/giant-panda

Does it matter?

Yes.

Best, Terry