| Title | World's Oldest Captive Male Panda Dies at 31 | |
| Date | Sunday January 01 2017, @11:52AM | |
| Author | cmn32480 | |
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| from the black-and-white dept. | ||
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-38466409
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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