{"id":819709,"date":"2026-10-31T11:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819709\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:42:14","slug":"cute-new-red-panda-arrives-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819709\/","title":{"rendered":"Cute new red panda arrives in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"

A one-year-old female red panda named Yun has arrived at Edinburgh Zoo.<\/p>\n

She will live alongside male panda Bruce with keepers at the wildlife conservation charity hoping to hear the patter of tiny paws in future.<\/p>\n

Yun is an East Asian word for \u201ccloud\u201d and connotes lightness, beauty and good fortune.<\/p>\n

The new female was born in June 2025 and has come from Banham Zoo in Norfolk. <\/p>\n

Wild red pandas live in the Himalayas and southwestern China and like to live in forests where there is dense bamboo. This is the bulk of their diet but they also eat fruit, acorns, roots, eggs and insects.<\/p>\n

In their native habitat they are mainly solitary and active at dawn and dusk, spending most of their time in the trees. They keep warm by using their bushy tail as a kind of blanket.<\/p>\n

The red panda is on the endangered list and they are threatened by habitat loss and poaching.<\/p>\n

Visitors can book zoo tickets online and save at\u00a0edinburghzoo.org.uk\/tickets<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A one-year-old female red panda named Yun has arrived at Edinburgh Zoo. She will live alongside male panda…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[208287,208288,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-819709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-edinburgh-local-news","tag-edinburgh-news","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}