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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]
The Bronx Zoo (also historically the Bronx Zoological Park and the Bronx Zoological Gardens) is a zoo within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City.It is one of the largest zoos in the United States by area and is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States by area, [5] comprising 265 acres (107 ha) of park lands and naturalistic habitats separated by the Bronx River.
In 1941, Soong May-ling presented two giant pandas, Pan Dee and Pan Dah, [5] to the Bronx Zoo. [6] The gift of the two giant pandas was the inception of China's modern "panda diplomacy" and established the political gift model of "panda diplomacy". [7] On October 4, 1945, Pan Dee died of peritonitis. [8]
The Smithsonian's National Zoo might've closed for the day on January 6, but that didn't stop Bao Li and Qing Bao from having their fun. Video shows the two pandas frolicking in the white stuff.
Back in November, the National Zoo in Washington returned three pandas to China as part of a more than 50-year-old legacy, leaving Georgia's Zoo Atlanta as the only one in the U.S. with a giant ...
The Bronx Zoo will also be offering two sensory-friendly nights on Thursday, Dec. 5 and Friday, Jan. 3 for visitors who would thrive in a modified version of the event. These days will include a ...
There had been previous pandas sent to the U.S., including one named Su Lin sold to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago by Ruth Harkness in 1937, a second one named Mei-Mei brought back by Harkness in 1938 and also sold to the Brookfield Zoo, [4] one named Pandora sent to the Bronx Zoo by David Crockett Graham in 1938, and a second named Pan sent to ...
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.