Beijing
Zoo: A Place of Firsts
The
Beijing Zoo has a long and productive history with giant pandas. It was
the first to breed giant pandas successfully. The first baby, Ming Ming,
was born to female Li Li and male Pi Pi on September 9, 1963. In 1978,
the Beijing Zoo was also the first to have birth result from artificial
insemination.
The Beijing Zoo is very large and sits just outside of town along a canal
that flows all the way to the Summer Palace. Among its impressive collection
of animals are several species that I had never seen before. One of the
gems is the only zoo specimen in the world of a newly described species
of camel found in the deserts of Asia. (See
left for this and other animals found in the Beijing Zoo.)
A
small pagoda at Summer Palace.
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The male water deer has fangs!
Takin (below) share their habitat with pandas.
This is the only zoo specimen of this kind of Bactrian camel in the world!
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