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    Question: Why are the red pandas called red pandas. (They aren't red!)

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    Asked by Gordon Ramsay to Dervil, Moises, Pramod, Saoirse, Stephen on 18 Nov 2016.
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      Stephen Davitt answered on 18 Nov 2016:


      I guess the same reason they call people with orange hair, Red haired, its probably just a misnaming, orange and red are pretty close on the colour spectrum

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