In the midst of heavy snow in St Martin la Plaine , France , a cunning little critter made a avant-garde escape . Broken branch heavy with snowfall provided a red coon bear with the gross chance to climb out of his envelopment into a nearby Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree .

St Martin la Plaine Zoo , which is located to the south of Lyon , herald that they had lost one of their red pandas onFacebookon Wednesday , implore hoi polloi to look out for him .

“ The Red Panda is a mainly night animal , so it expend a good part of its Clarence Shepard Day Jr. catch some Z’s in a tree . He is an outstanding climber who is not afraid of altitude , do not hesitate to look up the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ! ” they said .

The 3 - year - old manlike red panda was last fleck less than 5 kilometer ( 3 miles ) from the zoological garden , AP reports , but he has yet to be retake . Members of the public have been warn not to get too airless or effort to grab him , as crimson pandas can be feisty small beasts despite their lovely smell .

“ Do n’t try out to beguile him , because , even if it ’s a minuscule harmless animal with plush looks , it has good claw and undecomposed dentition ! ” wrote the zoo .

Bizarrely , this is n’t the first clip a flushed Ailurus fulgens has gone on the streak . In 2015 , snow break a tree offset in Hangzhou Zoo , China , allowinga trey of red pandas to take flight . Two of the fauna were recaptured pretty fleetly , but the third drop an telling 242 day on the lam . This year , a Marxist pandafled Belfast Zoo . After it spend some time “ call for in the sights of beautiful Glengormley ” it was ground and take back to its enclosure .

Despite their cognomen , reddish pandas are n’t closely related to togiant pandas . In fact , they ’re not bear at all . The species ( genus Ailurus fulgens ) is the only livelihood penis of its family line and genus , and isthought to be related toraccoons , weasels , and skunks . The name panda is thought to bederived from the Nepali wordfor bamboo , as that ’s what the animal prey on , along with Charles Edward Berry and orchis . The giant panda was actually named after the ruby panda , making carmine pandas the original panda .