Red pandas kept in North America

Whether or not certain red pandas are hybrids between the two subspecies is unclear; but if some zoos are willing to (and still do) treat the Red Panda as a monotypic species. There is a slight possibility that some (not all) pandas may in fact be zoo-mixes genetically.

There are no known hybrids in the AZA at this time, and while many zoos do not necessarily acknowledge the split in their signage, the two have been separately managed for a long time.
 
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