You may never have heard of him, but without this bear you might never have seen a panda in your local zoo. Pan Pan, the oldest male panda in the world, died early in the morning on Wednesday in China’s Sichuan province. During his life, Pan Pan fathered more than 130 children and grandchildren, according […]

Shi Shi died on July 14, 2014 at the Chengdu Zoo. The male panda was born on September 10, 1998 and is the youngest breeding panda. He moved to the Chengdu Zoo in April 2014.

On November 14, 2011 I visited Chengdu Zoo. We were welcomed by director Wang Qiang & his staff. Chengdu Zoo has a rich panda history and was the first zoo in China to exhibit a giant panda. It was in January 1953 that the first wild giant panda was found and rescued. The panda was […]