Bay Area/ San Francisco

Stressed About The Election? Kick Back With The SF Zoo's Red Panda Video Stream

Published on November 08, 2016
Stressed About The Election? Kick Back With The SF Zoo's Red Panda Video StreamAdorable red panda Tenzing pads over to the pool. (Photo: David Goehring/Flickr)

If the final day of this long, bitter election cycle has you stressed out, the San Francisco Zoo is here to cheer you up. Through a partnership with Firefox, the Zoo has posted a one-hour stream of its adorable red pandas on Facebook. 

According to the Chronicle, the stream showcases the zoo's three pandas, who are named Hunter, Tenzing and Hillary. (Hillary isn't named for Hillary Clinton, but for Sir Edmund Hillary, who, along with fellow red panda namesake Tenzing Norgay, was the first to ascend Mount Everest.) 

Like giant pandas—which they are not related to, despite the name—they feed mainly on bamboo. Their home base is the Eastern Himalayas, spanning China, Nepal, and Bhutan. 

The connection between Firefox and red pandas? Red pandas are also known as firefoxes, and the Mozilla Foundation's browser name and logo were derived from the cute animals. 

If an hour's not enough, here's another video of the red pandas prowling about and munching on bamboo: