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Pan Pan, the world's oldest male panda has died in China aged 31, six months after being diagnosed with cancer.
His more than 130 descendants account for a quarter of the world's captive-bred panda population.
Born in the wild in Sichuan in China, he was taken into captivity when he was just a few months old.
The world's oldest female panda is currently 36-year-old Basi, who also lives in China, after Jia Jia died aged 38 in Hong Kong in October.
Wild pandas usually live to about 20.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @08:08PM
We should note that there is another related creature also called a Panda.
It is much smaller and rust-colored.
Rather than resembling a bear, it looks kinda like a raccoon. [google.com]
...and, aside from the pleasure it gives to watch footage of Giant Pandas at play and moving on to the topic of the planet's genetic diversity, wouldn't it be a huge shame if we discovered that the genome of the Giant Panda contains the cure for some horrible human ailment just as the last of those critters died?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @10:41PM
Pandas are Giant Pandas unless they are Red Pandas, right, shifu? Or, they could actually be raccoons, lions, or bears, oh my! No other animal has benefited so greatly from "cuteness" as the Giant Panda, with the exception of Felis catus.