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The National Zoo’s three giant pandas are set to return to China in December. After their departure, the only pandas left in the U.S. will be returned in 2024.Giant panda Xiao Qi Ji eats bamboo in his enclosure at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington on Sept. 28, 2023. from late September claims all of the pandas in U.S. zoos are set to be returned to China after decades of peaceful panda relations between the two countries. VERIFY reader Dallas asked if this is true.
During their 20 years together, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing produced five cubs, but none of the offspring survived for more than a few days. The zoo's website says that Ling-Ling died of heart failure in 1992, and Hsing-Hsing was euthanized in 1999 after suffering from several debilitating, age-related diseases.
More than a year after Hsing’s Hsing’s death, the National Zoo’s second pair of giant pandas, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, arrived on loan from China on Dec. 6, 2000, when the zoo entered into its Giant Panda Cooperative Research and Breeding Agreement with the China Wildlife Conservation Association .that the initial agreement stipulated that Mei Xiang and Tian Tian would live there for 10 years. However, that agreement has been renewed three times since 2010.
China currently lends out 65 giant pandas to 19 countries through “cooperative research programs” with a mission to better protect the vulnerable species. The pandas typically return to China when they reach old age, and any cubs born are sent to China around age 3 or 4.its two giant pandas to China that were there on loan, and the last giant panda at the Memphis Zooin April 2023. After the departure of the National Zoo’s giant pandas in December, only four pandas will be left in the U.S.
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