Tuan Tuan and his mate, Yuan Yuan, were gifted to the zoo in 2008 during a time of warming relations between China and Taiwan, which split amid civil war in 1949.
The average life span for pandas in the wild is 15-20 years, but they can live for 30 years or more under human care.
In this photo released by the Taipei Zoo, workers attend to the ailing giant panda Tuan Tuan at the Taipei Zoo in Taipei, Taiwan on Friday, Nov. 17, 2022. In this photo released by the Taipei Zoo, workers attend to the ailing giant panda Tuan Tuan at the Taipei Zoo in Taipei, Taiwan on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022.
China sends pandas abroad as a sign of goodwill but maintains ownership over the animals and any cubs they produce. An unofficial national mascot, the animals are native to southwestern China, reproduce rarely and rely almost exclusively on a diet of bamboo.An estimated 1,800 pandas live in the wild, while another 500 are in zoos or reserves, mostly in Sichuan, where they are a protected species but remain under threat from habitat loss.
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