Panda Ling-Ling has Passed Away

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Ling-Ling Dies Suddenly

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.

A keeper who went to fetch her for the 3 p.m. feeding discovered Ling-Ling's body in the outdoor yard of the panda compound, the zoo's most-visited attraction. Zoo spokesman Mike Morgan said she apparently had collapsed suddenly, because the dirt where she lay was undisturbed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/june99/lingdies92.htm

May Ling-Ling enjoy herself forever with all the pandas wherever she is.

Life terminates in a sleep
that is followed by a new awakening.

Chuang Tzu

Love,
yoko

5/2/085:29 PM

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