Basi (giant panda)

Basi eating bamboo in 2012.

Basi (Chinese: 巴斯; pinyin: Bāsī; 1980 – 13 September 2017) was a female giant panda.[1][2] Since Jia Jia's death in 2016, she was the oldest living panda in captivity.[3][4]

Basi was the original model of 'Panpan', the mascot for the first Asian games (in China, 1990). She died at 8:50am on September 13, 2017, at the age of 37.[5] The Straits Giant Panda Research and Exchange Center in Fuzhou, where she lived, held a memorial in her honour.[6]

See also

• List of giant pandas
• List of individual bears

References

1. "Basi's 30th Birthday Party". giantpandaglobal.com. 13 November 2010.
2. "World's second oldest panda celebrates her 35th birthday". Shanghaiist. 28 November 2015. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
3. Zhou, Viola (29 December 2016). "Chinese wildlife conservationist seriously injured in attack by female panda". South China Morning Post.
4. "BASI SETS GUINNESS WORLD RECORD AS OLDEST PANDA". Shenzhen Daily. 13 January 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
5. "World's oldest captive panda Basi dies in China". BBC.
6. "World's oldest panda dies aged 37 in China". Indian Express.

Honorary titles
Preceded by Jia Jia	Oldest living giant panda 16 October 2016 – 13 September 2017	Succeeded by An An