Opa-panda Pan Pan deceased

China on Wednesday lost a well-known resident.

According to Chinese media had Pan Pan cancer. Giant pandas living in the wild around twenty years, in captivity they are a lot older. Pan Pan was the extent known, the oldest male panda in captivity. Of these very vulnerable animal species living there are less than 2,000 in the wild. Hundreds live in captivity.

Ouwehand Zoo hopes in the spring of 2017 to welcome two giant pandas from China, Xing Yu and Wu Wen. Worldwide, giant pandas only seen in eighteen zoos.

According to Chinese media had Pan Pan cancer. Giant pandas living in the wild around twenty years, in captivity they are a lot older. Pan Pan was the extent known, the oldest male panda in captivity. Of these very vulnerable animal species living there are less than 2,000 in the wild. Hundreds live in captivity.

Ouwehand Zoo hopes in the spring of 2017 to welcome two giant pandas from China, Xing Yu and Wu Wen. Worldwide, giant pandas only seen in eighteen zoos.