Red panda born at the Greenville Zoo

The Greenville Zoo is celebrating the birth of a male red panda.  The offspring, born June 21, is the first for the parents Collette, three years old, and Firecracker, nine years old.  And it’s the first birth of the species for the zoo since 2006.  Red pandas are native to the mountains of Nepal, north Myanmar, and central China.  They typically grow to the size of a house cat and spend their lives in trees and even sleep there.  The Greenville Zoo is open seven days a week, except major holidays.