The giant panda with its striking black and white fur is world famous. Only a few people know the red panda, however. Hardly anyone can resist this beautiful and extremely cute little bear. In some regions of Nepal they are called Ponja, ...See moreThe giant panda with its striking black and white fur is world famous. Only a few people know the red panda, however. Hardly anyone can resist this beautiful and extremely cute little bear. In some regions of Nepal they are called Ponja, which means bamboo eater. This is where the name panda comes from. Pandas even form their own family in the animal kingdom. Hidden in the dense rhododendron forests and bamboo jungles of the Himalayas, the red panda leads an extremely secret life that has rarely been filmed so far. We follow a female who gave birth to her young in a tree hollow, well protected. As nestlings, red panda babies develop very slowly. It is only after four weeks that the little one begins to crawl around in the cave. If still a little clumsily. In the shadow of 8,000 meter high peaks The film "The Little Panda" is the first intimate portrait of these animals. With the young mother and her cub, viewers experience the colorful flora and fauna between Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim. Here, Hanuman langurs climb through magnolia trees, pheasants that shimmer in all the colors of the rainbow court, the smallest land mammal in the world, the Etruscan shrew, hunts and goat-like takins effortlessly climb steep walls. The strange, bulbous-nosed ungulates even have a built-in brake on their hooves. In the midst of this mystical mountain kingdom with its unusual inhabitants, the film team was able to observe up close how the panda mother leads her cub out of the cave into the forests of the Himalayas for the first time. A world in the shadow of 8,000 meter high peaks - rich in species and full of life. A world that needs to be protected. Written by
ADR Das Erste
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