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

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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