The Rambunctious Red Panda

The red panda is an immensely charismatic animal. I took this shot in the early morning a few years back when visiting the National Zoo in Washington D.C. Off camera is a zoo keeper trying to coax the red panda into its enclosure so that a crew could come in to do some work on the enclosure. This was not long after he had escaped from the zoo (http://wjla.com/news/local/rusty-the-red-panda-escape-here-s-how-he-did-it-90727) and they were still in the process of making sure he couldn't get out again.