--- title: Red Pandas Play in Snow at Cincinnati Zoo description: Red pandas play in the snow at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden canonical: https://time.com/18579/these-red-pandas-playing-in-the-snow-will-make-your-monday/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-10T18:24:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:47.235Z og:title: These Photos of Red Pandas Playing in the Snow Will Make Your Monday og:description: Pandas just wanna have fun og:url: https://time.com/18579/these-red-pandas-playing-in-the-snow-will-make-your-monday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Photos of Red Pandas Playing in the Snow Will Make Your Monday twitter:description: Pandas just wanna have fun twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Red Pandas Playing in the Snow Will Make Your Monday  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 10, 2014 6:24 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 10, 2014 6:24 PM UTC The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/cincinnatizoo/posts/10152231594465479?stream%5Fref=10) recently posted these adorable photos of mother and daughter red pandas Bailey and Lin frolicking in the snow. According to the zoo’s [website](http://cincinnatizoo.org/blog/animals/red-panda/), red pandas’ thick, furry tails help shield them from the cold.  Photo by ChengLun Na PhD. / Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden  Photo by ChengLun Na PhD. / Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden  Photo by ChengLun Na PhD. / Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden  Photo by ChengLun Na PhD. / Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden (h/t[ Daily Mail](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2577477/Usually-solitary-red-panda-cubs-amaze-zoo-crowd-playful-fight-5ft-prancing-Cincinatti-snow.html)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/18579/these-red-pandas-playing-in-the-snow-will-make-your-monday/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/18579/these-red-pandas-playing-in-the-snow-will-make-your-monday/"},"headline":"These Red Pandas Playing in the Snow Will Make Your Monday","datePublished":"2014-03-10T18:24:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:47.235Z","description":"Pandas just wanna have fun","url":"https://time.com/18579/these-red-pandas-playing-in-the-snow-will-make-your-monday/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/18579/these-red-pandas-playing-in-the-snow-will-make-your-monday/","name":"These Red Pandas Playing in the Snow Will Make Your Monday"}}]}] ```