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Red pandas (Mammalia, Carnivora: Parailurus) in the biomes of North Eurasia and North America

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The discovery of the Pliocene red panda (Parailurus) in the West Transbaikal area, as well as Asian raccoons in North Eurasia and North America, indicates that forested areas with bamboo bushes were wide-spread in the Holarctic during the Neogene. During the Late Pliocene, due to a gradual cooling of the climate, altiplanation, and other factors, their habitat started disintegrating, and red pandas began dying out, surviving only in China.

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  1. Southern Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Chekhova 41, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia

    G. G. Matishov

  2. Institute of Arid Zones, Southern Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Chekhova 41, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia

    N. P. Kalmykov

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Original Russian Text © G.G. Matishov, N.P. Kalmykov, 2011, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2011, Vol. 438, No. 3, pp. 406–408.

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Matishov, G.G., Kalmykov, N.P. Red pandas (Mammalia, Carnivora: Parailurus) in the biomes of North Eurasia and North America. Dokl. Earth Sc. 438, 727–729 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X11050357

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