Jia Jia, the oldest panda in captivity, has died at 38 years old, which is around 114 in human years. During her last two weeks, Jia Jia slept quite a bit, was unable to walk without difficulty, and was no longer eating or drinking as she used to. Before her illness, she ate around 10 kilograms of food per day, but towards the end of her life, she was eating less than 3 kilos. In the end, her owners at Ocean Park in Hong Kong made the decision to put her down.
She came to the park in 1999 when people gifted her to Hong Kong to mark the second anniversary of the city’s handover from Britain.
Jia Jia, the oldest panda in captivity, has died at 38 years old, which is around 114 in human years. During her last two weeks, Jia Jia slept quite a bit, was unable to walk without difficulty, and was no longer eating or drinking as she used to. Before her illness, she ate around 10 kilograms of food per day, but towards the end of her life, she was eating less than 3 kilos. In the end, her owners at Ocean Park in Hong Kong made the decision to put her down.
She came to the park in 1999 when people gifted her to Hong Kong to mark the second anniversary of the city’s handover from Britain.
The biggest problem was that people were destroying their natural habitat. Luckily, the situation is getting better for pandas. People are trying to help them.