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Ueno Zoo's Ling Ling dies
AP via brietbart ^
| April 30, 2008
| Kyodo
Posted on 04/29/2008 7:38:07 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
TOKYO, April 30 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Ling Ling, a male giant panda at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, died early Wednesday morning, zoo officials said.
He was 22 years and seven months old, equivalent to about 70 human years. Since the cause of his death is unknown, the zoo will conduct an autopsy on the panda, the officials said.
Ling Ling, born in Beijing Zoo in China in 1985, was the only giant panda in Japan who belonged to Japan.
He was given to Ueno Zoo in 1992 in exchange for a Japan-born panda to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the normalization of bilateral ties.
He died just after the zoo stopped his public viewing Tuesday, explaining that he had suffered decreased heart and kidney functions due to old age and that he would undergo intensive care.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan
KEYWORDS: china; lingling
To: AmericanInTokyo; SevenofNine; TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
04/29/2008 7:38:59 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Who would the terrorists vote for?)
To: Jet Jaguar
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posted on
04/29/2008 7:41:44 PM PDT
by
billorites
(Freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
Didn’t he have a mate by that name?
susie
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posted on
04/29/2008 7:45:45 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: Jet Jaguar
I'll say it!BUSH'S FAULT. 
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posted on
04/29/2008 7:47:20 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c you're paranoid,doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you..our hopes were dashed by CINOs :)
To: skinkinthegrass
Actually he was killed by Rove after he accidentally discovered the location of Halliburton Katrina Hurricane machine.
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posted on
04/29/2008 7:48:51 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Four years of Carter gave us 29 years of Iran; What will Hilabama give us?)
To: Jet Jaguar
“Skip the gyoza. Trust me.”
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posted on
04/29/2008 7:52:21 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(HU AND WEN: WAT YOU SAY!!)
To: brytlea
Different panda with same name apparently.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/june99/lingdies92.htmBy
D’Vera Cohn and Brooke A. Masters
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, December 31, 1992; Page A1
Ling-Ling, the female half of the National Zoo’s fuzzy and beloved pair of rare giant pandas, died suddenly yesterday of unknown causes. She was 23, the oldest of her kind living in captivity outside China.
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posted on
04/29/2008 7:55:39 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Who would the terrorists vote for?)
To: Jet Jaguar
Oh, those names all sound the same! DOH!
susie
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posted on
04/29/2008 7:57:24 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: Jet Jaguar
Looks like Japan will have to go back to renting pandas from China at $1m per panda per year.
To: Perdogg; RichInOC
Actually he was killed by Rove after he accidentally discovered the location of Halliburton Katrina Hurricane machine...
darn it! ....Rove/Bush, Could've hid the "the instrument of world domination" better...@ least Shrillary "Where'$ My H$u" Klintoon / Barry Hussein "Rezco" Obama find it.
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posted on
04/29/2008 8:04:42 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c you're paranoid,doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you..our hopes were dashed by CINOs :)
To: Jet Jaguar
Since the cause of his death is unknown, the zoo will conduct an autopsy on the panda, the officials said. The AP reporter should know better, you can't perform an autopsy on an animal, it's a necropsy.
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04/29/2008 11:08:59 PM PDT
by
Gigantor
(The last oil refinery built in the United States was completed in 1976...)
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