Paradise Park at Hayle is offering visitors the chance to get up close to its family of Red Pandas and take part in a fun, educational quiz to learn more about these endangered animals.

Paradise Park is home to a family of these adorable bamboo loving pandas. Just like Giant Pandas, Red Pandas have an extra “thumb”, which is actually an enlarged bone designed to grab and hold bamboo stems, and they can eat up to 200,000 bamboo leaves daily.

Red Panda keeper Donna Sinclair said: “The quiz is a fun way to learn more about this rare and endangered species, take the challenge to find all the answers and then claim your Red Panda Ranger badge which we have created with the official Red Panda Network logo.

"We will have a special Red Panda talk at 2pm most days in August where we will encourage them to come down from trees so people can see them better, plus show off some of their training which helps when the vet comes in to do health checks. There will also be a few souvenir items available to purchase and a prize draw. Money raised will go to a special project to create a Red Panda protected forest in Nepal, run by RedPandaNetwork.org.”

The park currently has four Red Pandas on show, mum Jai-Li and her son Koda, plus daughter Scarlet and her companion Suri.

Staff will also be highlighting the very special Red Panda experiences which are now available. You can book a 30 minute session to go behind the scenes and into the enclosure for a close encounter. You will be able to feed, stroke, and in most cases, the pandas are happy to sit on your lap. For full details go to ParadisePark.org.uk; email Chloe at chloe@paradisepark.org.uk or call 01736 753365.