Amazon Quiz (April 1, 2022): In the ‘Kung Fu Panda’ series, which character was modeled on this animal?

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Master Shifu

Answer: Master Shifu

Master Shifu, one of the main supporting characters of the animated ‘Kung Fu Panda’ film series, is based on a red panda.

Master Shifu was long thought to be a raccoon, but Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman who voiced the character revealed in a 2016 interview on Today show that Shifu was, in fact, a red panda.

In the show, the then-75-year-old Hoffman appeared to confuse what animal Master Shifu was, and asked the host Matt Lauer, “Is it a raccoon?,” to which Lauer replied, saying, “I think it’s a raccoon.”

Then, a voice off-screen prompted to the Hoffman that Master Shifu was a red panda, at which the 75-year-old exlcaimed, “He’s a red panda, I thought he was a raccoon!”

The confusion led host Lauer to quip, “I want people to know that Dustin Hoffman has made $930 million dollars off of a character, and he’s not completely sure who the character is.”

For those unaware, red pandas are an endangered species found in the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China, and are identifiable by their reddish-brown coloured fur, white muzzles, and ringed tails.

The global red panda population is estimated to around 10,000, with poaching and the destruction of habitats threatening their existence even further. Red pandas have been listed as endangered on the IUCN Red list since 2015.

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