The party was reportedly heading to Mumbai, India. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists several of the animals, including the red panda, found in the checked luggage as endangered.

The Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park’s red panda programme is the first Indian project to be shortlisted in October ...

with the views extending across to India and Bhutan. It is the most spectacular place I’ve ever been to. Finding the red panda was not going to be straightforward. These animals have scarcely ...

Red pandas live in high-altitude forests of Nepal, India, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. They are mainly arboreal species, often living close to water sources and in densely bamboo covered areas. In the ...

Red pandas and giant pandas, despite sharing the same name, are distinct species belonging to different families. They differ in appearance, size, habitat, diet, behavior, reproduction ...

Encounters with rare animals such as the polka dot zebra in Kenya, a polar bear in Iceland, and a red panda in India's Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary highlight the need for wildlife conservation.

This story appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sundar is his name; Khusi is hers. Matchmakers in New Zealand introduced them—in the red panda habitat of the ...

Despite their name, Red Pandas are not related to panda bears. They actually belong to their own taxonomic category called Ailuridae. "Trash Pandas" makes sense because raccoons share the black ...