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Meimei
美美
- Life status
- Deceased
- Born
- Year only
- Died
- The date is shown as recorded; its precision has not been confirmed
After widespread bamboo flowering in Wolong Nature Reserve caused a food shortage in 1985, Meimei, one of the surviving giant pandas, was transferred to Guilin Zoo with special approval from the Ministry of Forestry. She lived there for 20 years. When she died in 2005 at about age 36, she was the world’s oldest giant panda in captivity at the time.
- Sex
- Female
No photograph is available yet.
Timeline
3 recorded events
- Year only
Born in the wild in Meigu
Meimei was born in the wild in Meigu County, Sichuan, around 1969.
Meigu County, Sichuan
3 event sources
Transferred to Guilin Zoo after the Wolong bamboo flowering crisis
Meimei survived the widespread bamboo flowering disaster in Wolong. On September 20, 1985, she was transferred to Guilin Zoo with special approval.
Guilin Zoo
Died at Guilin Zoo
Meimei died at Guilin Zoo at 5:37 p.m. on July 12, 2005, at about age 36.
Guilin Zoo
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Relationships
Offspring2
Places
The available information does not yet identify a specific place.
Read more about its time in different places in the Timeline.
Sources
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- news.sina.com.cnhttps://news.sina.com.cn/s/2005-07-12/21446417189s.shtml
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- tech.sina.com.cnhttps://tech.sina.com.cn/d/2005-07-13/1437662067.shtml
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- www.yaan.gov.cnhttps://www.yaan.gov.cn/mob/article.html?id=98c4c85f-0639-4e1b-9cde-be79fcf298da
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- www.chinanews.com.cnhttps://www.chinanews.com.cn/news/2005/2005-07-13/26/598664.shtml
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