Basi (giant panda)

Basi (Chinese: 巴斯; pinyin: Bāsī; 1980 – 13 September 2017) was a female giant panda.[1][2] Since Jia Jia's death in 2016, she was the oldest living panda in captivity.[3][4]

Basi eating bamboo in 2012.

Basi was the original model of ‘Panpan’, the mascot for the first Asian games (in China, 1990). She died that morning at 8:50am on September 13, 2017 at the age of 37.[5] The Straits Giant Panda Research and Exchange Center in Fuzhou, where she lived, held a memorial in her honour.[6]

References
  1. "Basi's 30th Birthday Party". giantpandaglobal.com.
  2. "World's second oldest panda celebrates her 35th birthday". Shanghaiist. 28 November 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  3. Zhou, Viola. "Chinese wildlife conservationist seriously injured in attack by female panda". South China Morning Post.
  4. "BASI SETS GUINNESS WORLD RECORD AS OLDEST PANDA". Shenzhen Daily. 13 January 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  5. "World's oldest captive panda Basi dies in China". BBC.
  6. "World's oldest panda dies aged 37 in China". Indian Express.
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