The world's oldest panda dies

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I saw this in CNN news today when I was at lunch. 34 years old is quite old for a panda.

 

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/5/17/1305631163828/Chinese-panda-Ming-Ming-d-007.jpg

 

Sure you can climb The Great Wall, but we all know that this piece of history is no match for the country¡¯s real, more cuddly, icon: the giant panda. Many are mourning this week as news that the world's oldest panda, Ming Ming, died at age 34 at Xiangjiang Wild Animal World in Panyu, in Guangdong Province, according to state media reports. Ming Ming was rescued from the wild in 1977, and according to officials, died of kidney failure brought on by old age on May 7.

 

The giant panda defied the odds, living well beyond the average 15 years for a wild panda, or 22 years for those in captivity.

 

 

Read more:

 

http://www.cnngo.com/shanghai/life/rip-ming-ming-worlds-oldest-panda-dies-605376

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/17/ming-ming-oldest-panda-dies