The vicious fight was caught on camera at Cincinnati Zoo in the US

Mar 11, 2014 10:43 GMT  ·  By
Red panda cubs caught on camera while playing in the snow at Cincinnati Zoo in the US
   Red panda cubs caught on camera while playing in the snow at Cincinnati Zoo in the US

Pretty much everybody loves and adores red pandas, and there is little doubt that these creatures must be some of the cutest to have ever walked the face of the Earth.

Still, it would appear that red pandas do have a dark side, and the picture above stands as proof of this.

Daily Mail tells us that the two red panda cubs pictured above were caught on camera while wrestling in the snow at Cincinnati Zoo in the United States.

Apparently, the two cubs got into a fight while trying to decide which of them was the cutest. Eventually, they agreed that they were both equally adorable, and made up.

In case anyone was worried about how shockingly vicious red pandas can sometimes be, it must be said that the cubs did not jump at each other's throat looking to injure one another.

On the contrary, they were merely playing, keepers at Cincinnati Zoo told the press.

For those unaware, red pandas are native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature considers this species to be a vulnerable one.

According to conservationists, deforestation is the chief reason why red pandas could become extinct in the not so distant future.