Red panda looking for its next place to sleep at Avifauna Bird Park

The red pandas in Avifauna Bird Park share their oriental garden with red-crowned crane as you can see in the footage. You don’t see red pandas being active in zoos very often. Normally they are sleeping, preferably on a high spot in a tree. Their diet of hard to digest vegetation requires them to allow the digestive tract enough time to do its job and use the available energy as efficient as possible – so they sleep or move slowly. Apparently that affects their decision making as well ;-). It takes some time before this red panda decides the hollowed tree trunk is not what it wants as a den for its next nap.