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Ling Ling is 22 years and seven months old, equivalent to about 70 human years, the Ueno Zoo said. It said he is the fifth-oldest known male panda in the world.¹

In this Saturday, April 20, 2002 file photo, male panda Ling-Ling sits in the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City. Japan’s oldest giant panda, a longtime star at a Tokyo zoo and a symbol of friendship with China, has died of illness, zoo keepers said Wednesday.²

Continuity: When Ling Ling Chai is about to jump over the wall with his magic box, Siu Kam turns her back to him. Next shot is a close-up on the box on the floor, and Siu Kam is clearly standing opposite to him according to the position of her feet.³

In this exclusive telephone interview, many details of this baffling case now come to light. Somewhat shy and careful about its choice of words, the dog seemed basically open, candid, and alert.⁴

A worker came to the zoo on Wednesday morning to find 22-year-old Ling Ling dead in its viewing pen. After examining video surveillance footage, zoo officials concluded that he died at around 2 a.m.⁵

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. With Ling Ling’s death, Ueno Zoo is without a panda for the first time since 1972, when the first two pandas were brought to the zoo from China.⁶