The media got a sneak peak at Toby Thursday as he explored his new home in the Natural Encounters building.

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The area includes natural log climbing features, a small pool, a water fall, skylights and air conditioning.
You're most likely to find Toby up in the trees because red pandas are suburb climbers.
Red pandas aren't much bigger than the average cat, around 14 pounds and 42 inches long from nose to tail. They have soft, dense fur that covers their entire body--even the soles of their feet.
Red pandas live solitary lives, only coming together to reproduce during the very brief breeding season.
They use their long, bushy tails to balance when they're in trees. They also cover themselves with their tails for warmth in the winter.
The red panda belongs to the Musteloidea family, which also includes skunks, raccoons and weasels.
They are very distant relatives of the giant panda.
In the wild, red pandas live only in temperate forests in the Himalayan foothills from western Nepal through northern Burma (Myanmar) and in the mountains of southwestern China at altitudes between 5,000 and 13,000 feet.
Temperatures remain fairly cool and constant in their native habitat, supporting the mix of forests trees and bamboo on which red pandas depend.
The red panda's diet is very unusual among mammals. Only the red panda, giant panda, two types of rodents, and one species of lemur from Madagascar can survive on a strict bamboo diet. The red panda's adaptation to a bamboo diet has helped shape their behavior, spending up to half the day in search of tender new bamboo leaves.
They also eat berries, fruit mushrooms, roots, acorns and grasses, but they're not strict vegetarians and will snack on an occasional small rodent, bird or fish.
The red pandas do little more than eat and sleep because of their low-calorie diet.

Sources: The Houston Zoo, The National Zoo