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Simplified drawing of the bones and selected muscles of the left hand of Ailurus fulgens (Red panda). Small arrows show the direction of pull of muscular fibres during contraction. Curved arrow shows the direction of rotation of the hand due to the supinatory action of the contracting muscle abductor pollicis longus. (a) Medio-ventral view, extended articulation. (b) Ventral view, partly flexed articulation. Note that even in slight flexion, digit 1 overlaps digit 2, whilst digit 5 overlaps digit 4, showing initial ‘closure of the palm’. apbo, muscles abductor pollicis brevis and oppones pollicis; apl, muscle abductor pollicis longus; fbdm, muscle flexor brevis digitorum manus; p, pisiform; rs, radial sesamoid.
Implications of the functional anatomy of the hand and forearm of Ailurus fulgens (Carnivora, Ailuridae) for the evolution of the ‘false-thumb’ in pandas by Mauricio Antón, Manuel J Salesa, Juan F Pastor, Stéphane Peigné, and Jorge Morales. J Anat. 2006 December; 209(6): 757–764. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2006.00649.x
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Red Panda Ailurus fulgens
Red Pandas just so happen to be Kat’s favorite animal, and her birthday is this week.
(via katandstephendrawanimals)
Posted on February 23, 2013 via S. Buehrer with 151 notes
Source: sbuehrer
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Drawing of a sleeping red panda dated 1852 in `Mammals of India’ by Brian Houghton Hodgson
For more information see: ‘Artefact of the month - May 2009. Red panda drawings’
From: RED PANDA Biology and Conservation of the First Panda Edited By ANGELA R. GLATSTON
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Pen and ink drawing of Red pandas by BH Hodgson.
Hodgson BH. 1847. On the cat-toed subplantigrades of the sub-Himalayas. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 16(2):1113-1129.
Posted on April 13, 2012 with 12 notes
Source: library.sandiegozoo.org
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Drawing of red panda dated 1852 in `Mammals of India’ by Brian Houghton Hodgson
For more information see ‘Artefact of the month - May 2009. Red panda drawings’
From: RED PANDA Biology and Conservation of the First Panda Edited By ANGELA R. GLATSTON
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Ailurus fulgens - The red panda or shining-cat
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1869 P. 408)
Posted on March 5, 2012 with 56 notes
Source: biodiversitylibrary.org
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The red panda (Ailurus fulgens, or shining-cat)
From: The naturalist’s library. Conducted by Sir William Jardine
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Ursus ornatus (the black bear of the cordilleras) ; Procyon lotor, Lin. (the raccoon) ; Ailurus refulgens (the shining cat or red panda) (1834-1837)
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The skull of a red panda (Ailurus fulgens)
From: ‘Catalogue of carnivorous, pachydermatous and edentate Mammalia’ by J.E. Gray
