Red Panda Encounter

Red Panda Encounter

My husband and I got to meet Tenzing, a 3 year old male red panda at the San Francisco Zoo. He's so adorable! The zoo has a meet-and-greet kind of program via IfOnly. As part of the encounter, we got to feed him bamboo leaves and apple pieces. Tenzing was partially hand-reared so he is comfortable around humans, which is why he's part of this particular program.

What I find most interesting is that whenever I see pictures of red pandas, they seem sort of larger than they really are. Tenzing is actually pretty small, yet even my pictures make him look larger than life. I have to keep remembering, for example, that his eyes are super tiny, like maybe the size of peas and that overall he's probably the size of an average housecat.