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New home opens for red pandas at Detroit Zoo

The Detroit Zoo has opened a new habitat for red pandas designed to provide a larger and more stimulating naturalistic environment.

The zoo currently has three of the animals

The Holtzman Wildlife Foundation Red Panda Forest made its debut this month at the zoo in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak. (Cliff Simpson/CBC)

The Detroit Zoo has opened a new habitat for red pandas.

The Holtzman Wildlife Foundation Red Panda Forest made its debutthis month at the zoo in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak.

It'sdesigned to provide a larger and more stimulating naturalisticenvironment for the pandas. And it seeks to help teach people moreabout the animals.

Detroit Zoo opens new habitat for three red pandas. (Cliff Simpson/CBC)

The zoo is home to three red pandas.

A $500,000 gift from theHoltzman Wildlife Foundation helped fund the roughly $800,000project.The habitat has been expanded and features a flowing stream, alarger pathway through the habitat and misting areas to cool the redpandas in the summer.

A new rope bridge extends 24 metresthrough the trees and provides new views of the animals for zoovisitors.

The intent of the new habitat is to provide a larger and more stimulating naturalistic environment for the animals. (Evelyne Asselin/CBC)