Pan Dee and Pan Dah

Pan Dee and Pan Dah
Sex
  • Male (Pan Dee)
  • Female (Pan Dah)
Bornc. September 1940
Died
  • October 4, 1945 (Pan Dee)[1]
  • October 31, 1951 (Pan Dah)[1]

Pan Dee (Chinese: 潘弟; pinyin: Pān dì or 班棣; Bān dì; c. September 1940 – October 4, 1945) and Pan Dah (Chinese: 潘达; pinyin: Pān dá or 班达; Bān dá;[2] c. September 1940 – October 31, 1951), also spelled Pan-dah,[3] were two giant pandas[4] captured in Western China[5] and settled in New York's Bronx Zoo.[6]

Life

Pan Dee, male, and Pan Dah, female,[3] were born around September 1940.[1] In 1941, Soong May-ling presented the two pandas to the Bronx Zoo.[7][8] The gift of the two giant pandas was the inception of China's modern "panda diplomacy",[9] and they were used to demonstrate the non-Communist Chinese people's love for the United States, especially for the Bronx.[10] On April 29, 1942, an all-American children's contest to name giant pandas launched by the United States Association for the Relief of Chinese Refugees was announced. The pair of giant pandas were named "Pan Dah" and "Pan Dee".[11]

On October 4, 1945, Pan Dee died of peritonitis.[11] On October 31, 1951, Pan Dah died at the Bronx Zoo.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Bronx Zoo". www.giantpandazoo.com. Archived from the original on February 10, 2010. Retrieved June 13, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Secret Sino-American "Panda Diplomacy" during the Anti-Japanese War (3)". China News Service (in Chinese). February 5, 2013.
  3. 1 2 Lucy Cooke (April 6, 2018). "The Un-Cuddly Truth About Pandas - WSJ". The Wall Street Journal.
  4. ↑ "Pan-Dee and Pan-Dah Cut Capers Before Accepting Names at the Zoo; Baby Giant Pandas, Gifts of Mme. Chiang, Outmanoeuvred -- Girls Place Wreaths as 300, Photographers Excepted, Enjoy Fun". The New York Times. May 28, 1942.
  5. ↑ Animal Kingdom: Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society. New York Zoological Society. 1951.
  6. ↑ Colin Schultz (July 28, 2014). "Ueno Zoo panda pair off-limits to public as female in heat". Smithsonian.
  7. ↑ Mure Dickie (May 7, 2005). "China brings 'panda diplomacy' to bear on Taiwan". Financial Times.
  8. ↑ Carl Swanson (March 8, 2017). "Suddenly, New York's Rich Are Obsessed With Importing Pandas". New York.
  9. ↑ "History of Panda Diplomacy in China (3)". The News Lens. January 25, 2021.
  10. ↑ Douglas Martin (October 5, 2000). "Yes, We Have No Bronx Pandas; The Bears Seem to Be Everywhere Except New York". The New York Times.
  11. 1 2 "Decryption: The "Panda Diplomacy" You Never Heard of During the Anti-Japanese War". People's Daily. February 1, 2013.
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