Pandas are close relatives to the raccoon and are more raccoon than they are bear.
Actually, it has recently been discovered that Red Pandas are not any more closely related to raccoons than they are to bears, but are in a family all of their own, called Ailuridae.
Raccoons are members of the Procyonidae
family, while the Bear family is called Ursidae.
The animal that looks like a raccoon and a bear is called a red panda.
You are probably referring to the red panda but these are only distantly related to the raccoon.
The raccoon dog (see image above) and red panda look somewhat similar to raccoons and are of similar size.
The difference between a raccoon and a red panda is that they have a different color of fur, a raccoon is nocturnal, red pandas live in bamboo forests, and a raccoon is predatory. :)
A giant panda is an animal with white and black fur on it. A red panda is like a raccoon a and it is red in color. They are mostly found in China.
No, a giant panda is a bear but the red panda is related to the raccoon.
Red panda
Because the giant panda is more like the koala and the red panda is more like the raccoon. But they both have panda in thier name
The red panda has given scientists taxonomic fits. It has been classifiedas a relative of the giant panda, and also of the raccoon, with which itshares a ringed tail. Currently, red pandas are considered members oftheir own unique family—the Ailuridae.
The animal that resembles a bear but looks like a raccoon is called a "red panda."
RED PANDA
Yes.