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Pan Pan, the ‘grandpa’ of zoo pandas, dies

by Donna Tam

Dec 30, 2016

The panda patriarch is responsible for 25 percent of the world's captive pandas.

Giant panda 'Pan Pan' holds a mascot of the 16th Asian Games, at a zoo in Fuzhou, south China's Fujian province on Nov. 12, 2010, to celebrate the opening ceremony of Guangzhou Asian Games.

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