Ling Ling

Ling Ling was born in 1969 in China. She stayed in China for three year. Then she was move to the Washington D.C Zoo in 1972 with a male panda named Hsing Hsing. There were the first pandas in the USA. Over the next few years Ling Ling gave birth to 5 cubs all which soon died shortly after brith. She died at the D.C Zoo in 1992 at the age of 23 years old. Her mate Hsing Hsing would live on 7 more years. When they died, the zoo received thousands of letters from lots of saddened people.