The Red Panda lives beneath the forest canopy in the mountains in Nepal, India, Bhutan, China, Laos and Myanmar. There are 2 subspecies, which live in slightly different geographical areas. The red panda has small features like a cat but the markings of a panda or raccoon. In fact it looks like a cross between all three. It is about the size of a raccoon and weighs 7 to 14 pounds. They are about 20 to 26 inches long with their tail an additional 12 to 20 inches.Red pandas live 12 to 14 years. It is an omnivore (eats both plants and animals). It mostly eats bamboo, but it also consumes fruit, roots, eggs and small mammals. Red panda is diurnal animal that is mostly active in the morning and late afternoon.

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The Bungle Bungles National Park also called Purnululu National Park is known for the astounding Bungle Bungle range. It features spectacular rounded rock towers alternately striped in orange and black. It is a popular destination for adventurous hikers and four-wheel-drive enthusiasts. National Park is 45,000 hectares in area and is located east of Highway 1 between Kununurra in the north and Halls Creek in the south. It is in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. From the Park boundary it is a further 25 km drive and a short 2 km hike into Cathedral Gorge, where towering rocks enclose a small pool of calm water. Feel the power of silence, or listen to the almighty echo.

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Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of snow were falling like feathers from the sky, a queen sat at a window sewing, and the frame of the window was made of black ebony. And whilst she was sewing and looking out of the window at the snow, she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell upon the snow. And the red looked pretty upon the white snow, and she thought to herself, would that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the window-frame. Soon after that she had a little daughter, who was as white as snow, and as red as blood, and her hair was as black as ebony, and she was therefore called little Snow White. And when the child was born, the queen died…

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