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The zoo posted a video of its two resident red pandas frolicking in the snow and their glee is almost enough to remind snowbound residents to go outside and play instead of watching _The Shining_ again. The video was taken by zookeeper Lissa Browning and shows Lin, a 2-year-old female, and Rover, a 9-year-old male, cavorting in their snow-covered pen. Red pandas are used to cold weather as they are natives of the Himalayas and it’s clear they love romping in the snow. As people continue to dig out from the winter storms that have buried much of the Midwest and East Coast of the United States in snow, this video serves as a good reminder that winter can actually be fun. _Read next:_[ _See Photos of Endangered Species from the 1960s_](http://time.com/3715338/endangered-species/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ## Transcript [ NOISE ] [ NOISE ] [ INAUDIBLE ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3716312/red-pandas-snow-cincinnati-zoo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3716312/red-pandas-snow-cincinnati-zoo/"},"headline":"These Red Pandas Frolicking in the Snow Will Remind You Everything Is Going to Be OK","datePublished":"2015-02-20T15:27:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-01T09:02:53.656Z","description":"Best snow day ever","url":"https://time.com/3716312/red-pandas-snow-cincinnati-zoo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf269f566b502ba8e/69878034e20a8762fda85352/red-pandas-snow.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf269f566b502ba8e/69878034e20a8762fda85352/red-pandas-snow.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"red-pandas-snow","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3716312/red-pandas-snow-cincinnati-zoo/","name":"These Red Pandas Frolicking in the Snow Will Remind You Everything Is Going to Be OK"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Red Pandas are Having Snow Much Fun - Cincinnati Zoo","description":"Red Pandas are Having Snow Much Fun - Cincinnati Zoo","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/CAzYSRaN/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-02-20T15:36:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/CAzYSRaN.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3716312/red-pandas-snow-cincinnati-zoo/","duration":"PT1M14S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3716312/red-pandas-snow-cincinnati-zoo/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```