the.com/red panda

means A small, russet-furred mammal with a ringed tail, native to the Himalayas, that's only distantly related to the giant panda but shares its love of bamboo.

from 'Panda' almost certainly comes from a Nepali name for the animal, possibly nigalya ponya, roughly 'bamboo eater' — and here's the twist: red pandas were named and described first, decades before the giant panda was discovered. So the giant panda was actually named after the red one, borrowing its name because of the shared bamboo diet, not the other way around. 'Red' simply describes its rusty coat.