Seeing red!
Just when you thought red pandas couldn’t get any cuter.
Photo Courtesy of Prosect Park Zoo
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COURIER L 12 IFE, NOV. 22-28, 2019
Locals surround the wrecked car as fi re fi ghters inspect the damage.
Photo by Paul Martinka
BY BEN VERDE
An SUV overturned in
Kensington on Tuesday, after
a high-speed crash that
left one driver injured.
According to witnesses,
both drivers were heading
southbound on McDonald
Avenue near Caton Avenue
at around 8 am, when the
driver of a white Toyota lost
control, sideswiped another
car, crashed into another
car and ended up sidewise.
Locals surrounded the
scene as the Fire Department
inspected the damage.
The driver of the SUV
was treated for non-lifethreatening
injuries, while
the driver of the blue car
was checked by medics at
the scene.
The two-block stretch of
McDonald Avenue between
Caton and Church avenues
has seen 11 crashes since
2011, resulting in 15 injuries
according to Crashmapper.
– With Paul Martinka
BY BEN VERDE
Brooklyn cutest new residents
made their public debut
this week.
The Prospect Park Zoo’s
two new male red panda cubs
are fi nally old enough to strut
their stuff in the public eye –
and they don’t disappoint.
The rouge tinted raccoons
– which are not related to giant
pandas – were born over
the summer in their indoor
den, where they were cared
for by their mother, Willow,
until they were ready to venture
outside.
Now they’re making themselves
at home in the red
panda habitat – climbing up
trees, frolicking across their
enclosure and munching on
Bamboo leaves, the rascals.
The Styan red panda,
which is closely related to
Brooklyn’s ubiquitous masked
bandits, the North American
raccoon, is a subspecies from
the eastern portion of the Himalayas.
The Styan’s panda
is slightly larger and redder
than other pandas – and in
this reporter’s opinion, much
cuter.
Check out Brooklyn’s newest
procyonids at the Prospect
Park Zoo 450 Flatbush Ave.
near Empire Boulevard in
Prospect Park, (718) 399-7339,
prospectparkzoo.com Open
10 am – 4:40 pm. Adults, $9.95;
children under 13, $6.95; seniors
over 65, $7.95. Free for
kids under 2.
Kensington crash
Adorable red panda cubs debut at Prospect Park Zoo
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