Pan Pan (giant panda)

Pan PanSpecies| Giant panda

|

Sex| Male
Born| 1985
Sichuan, China
Died| December 28, 2016 (aged 31)
Chengdu, China
Named after| Hope

Pan Pan (1985 – 28 December 2016) was a male giant panda who was resident at the Giant Panda Protection and Research Centre in Chengdu, China. At the time of his death, he was the oldest male giant panda in captivity.[1] The oldest living giant panda in captivity at the time of Pan Pan's death was Basi, a female giant panda who was then 37.[2]

Pan Pan (meaning "hope" or "expectation") was born in the wild in Baoxing County, Sichuan, China, in 1985, and after being rescued was placed in the Chengdu protection centre. He is thought to have over 130 descendants – more than a quarter of the world's captive-bred panda population.[3][4] Pan Pan's children include Bai Yun (born 1991), Tian Tian (born 1997), Gu Gu (1999–2025) and Lin Hui (2001–2023).[5][6][7] Pan Pan is the great-grandfather[8] of Toronto-born panda twins Jia Yueyue and Jia Panpan (born 2015).

Pan Pan died aged 31 at the Dujiangyan branch of the centre on 28 December 2016, six months after being diagnosed with cancer. He was recognized for being good at breeding.[3][4]

## See also

[edit]

* List of giant pandas
* List of individual bears

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "'Oldest' panda in captivity Jia Jia dies at the age of 38". BBC World News, Asia. 16 October 2016.
2. ^ "BASI SETS GUINNESS WORLD RECORD AS OLDEST PANDA". Retrieved 13 January 2017.
3. ^ a b "World's oldest male panda Pan Pan dies aged 31". BBC World News, Asia. 30 December 2016.
4. ^ a b Natalie Evans (30 December 2016). "World's oldest male giant panda Pan Pan dies aged 31". Mirror Online.
5. ^ "Farewell to Panda Dong Dong". blogs.sandiegozoo.org. Archived from the original on 2011-06-16.
6. ^ Penman, Maggie (30 December 2016). "'Panda Grandpa' Pan Pan Dies in China". NPR.
7. ^ "Pan Pan | Panda Spotlight | Pandas International". 13 April 2013.
8. ^ "The Complicated Legacy of a Panda Who Was Really Good at Sex". 28 November 2017.

* v
* t
* e

Famous giant pandas

Panda diplomacy * Giant pandas around the world

* An An
* Bai Yun
* Bao Bao
* Bao Li
* Bei Bei
* Basi
* Chi Chi
* Chuang Chuang
* Da Mao
* Er Shun
* Gao Gao
* Gu Gu
* Hua Hua
* Hua Mei
* Jia Jia
* Jia Yueyue and Jia Panpan
* Kang Kang
* Lan Lan
* Lin Bing
* Lin Hui
* Ling Ling
* Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing
* Lumi and Pyry
* Lun Lun
* Mei Lan
* Mei Sheng
* Mei Xiang
* Meng Xiang
* Meng Yuan
* Ming Ming
* Pan Dah
* Pan Dee
* Pan Pan
* Qing Bao
* Ri Ri
* Shi Shi
* Shin Shin
* Su Lin (1930s)
* Su Lin (born 2005)
* Tai Shan
* Taotao
* Tian Tian ♀
* Tian Tian ♂
* Tohui
* Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan
* Xi Lan
* Xiang Xiang (born 2001)
* Xiang Xiang (born 2017)
* Xiao Liwu
* Xiao Qi Ji
* Xin Xin
* Wang Wang and Fu Ni
* Yang Yang
* You You
* Yuan Zai
* Yun Zi
* Zhen Zhen

Individual giant pandas

This article about a carnivoran is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template