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How have monkeys, normally associated with lowland jungle, come to live such a remote mountain existence? This is not the only remarkable animal found within these isolated high peaks. |
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A Chinese red panda. |
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Solitary and quiet, it spends much of its time in the tree tops. |
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Despite its name, the red panda is only a very distant relative of the giant panda. |
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It' s actually more closely related to a skunk. |
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But it does share the giant panda' s taste for bamboo. Southwest China' s red pandas are known for their very strong facial markings which distinguish them from red pandas found anywhere else in the Himalayas. Like the monkeys, they were isolated in these high forests |
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when the mountains quite literally rose beneath them in the greatest mountainbuilding event in recent geological history. |
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Over the last 30 million years, |
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the Indian subcontinent has been pushing northwards into Eurasia. |
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