Includes bibliographical references and index.

People and red pandas : the red panda's role in economy and culture / Angela R. Glatston and Axel Gebauer -- Evolution of the family Ailuridae : origins and Old-World fossil record / Manuel F. Salesa ... [et al.] -- Advanced members of the Ailuridae (lesser or red pandas - subfamily Ailurinae) / Steven C. Wallace -- Phenotypic and geographic diversity of the lesser panda Parailurus / Martin Kundrát -- Red panda anatomy / Rebecca E. Fisher -- The taxonomy and phylogeny of Ailurus / Colin Groves -- Reproduction of the red panda / Lesley E. Northrop and Nancy Czekala -- Placentation of the red panda / Kurt Benirschke -- The early days : maternal behaviour and infant development / Axel Gebauer -- Red panda ecology / Fuwen Wei and Zejun Zhang -- A brief history of the red panda in captivity / Marvin L. Jones -- Red panda husbandry for reproductive management / Kati Loeffler -- Red panda nutrition : how to feed a vegetarian carnivore / Joeke Nijboer and Ellen S. Dierenfeld -- Captive red panda medicine / Joost Philippa and Ed Ramsay -- Red panda pathology / Brian Preece -- Red pandas in zoos today : the history of the current captive population / Angela R. Glatson -- Management, husbandry and veterinary medicine of red pandas living ex situ in China / Kati Loeffler -- The global captive population of the red panda - possibilities for the future / Kristin Leus -- Status and distribution of red panda Ailurus fulgens fulgens in India / Dipankar Ghose and Pijush Kumar Dutta -- Red pandas in the wild in China / Fuwen Wei and Zejun Zhang -- Project Punde Kundo : community-based monitoring of a red panda population in eastern Nepal / Brian H. Williams, Bhagawan R. Dahal and Tulsi R. Subedi -- Conservation initiatives in China / Fuwen Wei, Zejun Zhang and Zhijin Liu -- Records and reports of red pandas Ailurus fulgens from areas with warm climates / J.W. Duckworth -- Release and reintroduction of captive-bred red pandas into Singalila National Park, Darjeeling, India / Alankar K. Jha -- Synthesis / Angela R. Glatston.