The Red Panda & the Dancing Cranes 🦊

What happens

In Bhutan's Phobjikha Valley, a fluffy red-and-white face with a stripy tail peeks over a branch: a red panda! Black-necked cranes arrive for the winter and do their welcome dance, prayer flags flutter, and big hairy yaks shake their hair like mops.

Fun facts

• In Bhutan, people celebrate the cranes' return every year with a festival.
• Red pandas wrap their fluffy tails around themselves like a blanket.
• Yaks have such thick hair they can live where it snows all winter.

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