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This is a partial list of giant pandas, both alive and deceased.The giant panda is a conservation-reliant vulnerable species. [1] Wild population estimates of the bear vary; one estimate shows that there are about 1,590 individuals living in the wild, [2] while a 2006 study via DNA analysis estimated that this figure could be as high as 2,000 to 3,000.
In total there have been eight live births at the zoo. The most famous panda to have lived at the zoo is Tohui (1981–1993). [76] As of November 2019, the two female giant pandas who live at the zoo, Shuan Shuan (b. 1988) and Xin Xin (b. 1990), are the oldest Giant Pandas in captivity. [77]
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While at the zoo, they attracted millions of visitors each year. During their time at the National Zoo, the pair had five cubs between 1983 and 1989, but none of them survived past a few days. Ling-Ling died suddenly from heart failure [ 2 ] on December 30, 1992, [ 3 ] at which time she was the longest-lived giant panda in captivity outside China .
They were the first giant pandas to be born in Canada, and only the second giant panda twins to survive the neonatal period in North America. Their birth was the result of one of two artificial insemination procedures overnight from 13 to 14 May 2015. The pandas went on public exhibit at the zoo on 12 March 2016. [1]
Pan Dah (c. September 1940 – October 31, 1951), also spelled Pan-dah, [3] was a female giant panda [4] captured in Western China [5] and settled in New York's Bronx Zoo. [6]In 1941, Soong May-ling, Chiang Kai-shek, presented two giant pandas, Pan Dah and Pan Dee, [7] to the Bronx Zoo of the United States. [8]
Giant pandas are listed as a vulnerable species, and are protected in part by conservation efforts at reservations and in zoos such as the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Bao Bao is one of only several hundred giant pandas alive today in captivity, among fewer than 2,000 giant pandas in the world, the first surviving panda cub born ...
Pandas have long been a mainstay at the National Zoo, ever since the first pair arrived from China as part of a diplomatic program in 1972, but the last panda family was sent back to China in 2023 ...