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Local student visits red pandas

FALLBROOK – Caroline Shearer, an eighth grader at Potter Junior High, spent four days in October at the Knoxville Zoo’s Red Panda Village. Caroline, who wants to study zoology with the eventual goal of working with endangered species, went to Knoxville because, she said, “The Knoxville Zoo has one of the highest birth rates for red pandas in the world. These cubs are the 94th and 95th born there in the last 20 years.”

Caroline raised funds to “adopt” the two three-month-old female cubs and spent time inside the nursery with Red Panda Curator and Species Survival Coordinator Sarah Glass. She also visited the University of Tennessee Biology Department, touring one of the mammal labs and learning about genetically identifying and classifying subspecies.

Caroline notes optimistically, “I found out that the Species Survival Program will be sending a male and female red panda pair to San Diego Zoo in another year.”

 

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