Richard Kettlewell

We visited Paradise Wildlife Park, primarily to see their red pandas. These creatures aren’t particularly closely related to pandas (rather, they are much closer to racoons, badgers and weasels) but they do consume a great deal of bamboo.

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Last time I was in Bournemouth I met a local fox that visits the garden occasionally; this time I was lucky enough to be able to get my camera before it left. It was pretty jumpy, if I made any kind of noise it would leap back a bit even though it'd been looking right at me, but stuck around a few minutes.

Flash photography (the light was almost gone); its eyes aren't normally like that!