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Chia Chia the Giant Panda at London Zoo, 15 February 1987
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Chia Chia the Giant Panda at London Zoo, 15 February 1987

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snowleopard
Interesting to look through the wire at a giant panda exhibit that was in place more than 20 years ago. Also, I appreciate the dating of the photographs...thanks!
 
mhale
It seems such a long time ago now that we last had Giant Pandas in the UK. There were (I think) a pair of pandas at London Zoo after Chia Chia but I don't think there have been any since then. This caged enclosure was not very nice at all.
 
Zambar
Funnily enough, this is one of the four still-standing Sobells, housing more suited colobus. I've also heard rumours of London being interested in pandas again, any furtherence on this?
 
J
At least this enclosure isn't much worse than what the Chinese zoos keep their pandas in (Beijing, Gungzhou (sp?)) spring to mind...
 
GillP
Mhale said:
There were (I think) a pair of pandas at London Zoo after Chia Chia
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This panda, Chia-Chia was one of the pair given to Ted Heath in 1974 by the Chinese government, along with Ching-Ching.

The panda prior to this pair was Chi-Chi (without the a on the end of her name !) who died in 1972.

Ching-Ching died in 1985, while Chia-Chia left London in 1988 for Mexico City. He died in 1991.
 
GillP
Cat-Man said:
no chai chai still alive
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Not sure what you mean ?

This panda, Chia Chia, is definitely dead. There are several references on the web to him dying in Mexico on 13 Oct 1991 if you Google him.
 
J
Isn't this panda stuffed an living in the natural history museum? Maybe "living" was the wrong expression lol.
 

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