Does the Toronto Zoo still have pandas?

All four pandas will be moved to the Calgary Zoo for the next five years to end their 10-year loan. Sunday will be the last day visitors can catch a glimpse of the animals in Toronto. Here's a look back the giant pandas' five-year stay at the Toronto Zoo.



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The last day that the giant pandas were viewable at the Toronto Zoo was 18 March 2018. The two pandas have since left Canada and now reside at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.

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On Oct. 24, Toronto Zoo posted on social media that the three-month-old cub called Dash died unexpectedly, after staff found him in a weak state, lying on his side the day prior (here). (here). A spokesperson for the zoo, Amy Naylor, told Reuters that the cub had not received a COVID-19 vaccine.

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The San Diego Zoo returned its pandas in 2019, and the last bear at the Memphis, Tennessee, zoo went home earlier this year. The departure of the National Zoo's bears would mean that the only giant pandas left in America are at the Atlanta Zoo — and that loan agreement expires late next year.

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The departure of the National Zoo's bears would mean that the only giant pandas left in America are at the Atlanta Zoo — and that loan agreement expires late next year. Wilder said the Chinese possibly could be trying to send a signal.

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The four pandas will be moved to the Calgary Zoo in March and will stay there until 2023.

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The zoo claims that this is because of a three-year contract it has with the China Wildlife Conservation Association.

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In October 2011, after a spate of elephant deaths and harsh criticism from a U.S.-based animal-rights group, city council voted 31 to 4 to send the Toronto Zoo's three remaining African elephants — Thika, Toka and Iringa — to the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) sanctuary in San Andreas, Calif.

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With diplomatic tensions running high between Beijing and a number of Western governments, China appears to be gradually pulling back its pandas from multiple Western zoos as their agreements expire.

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Celebrate North America's oldest Sumatran Orangutan and the oldest resident at the Zoo! Join us in celebrating her 56th Birthday with a birthday cake this Saturday and some special enrichment fit for a queen. Puppe has been at the Toronto Zoo since opening in 1974 and has had five children and five grandchildren.

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This means that currently, you can only see pandas in zoos in the US in Washington D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia. The pandas at Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington D.C. are on loan until December 7, 2023. The pandas in Atlanta are on loan through late 2024.

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Zoo Atlanta has so far been very successful in this resource-intensive process. The giant pandas may be seen year-round at virtually any time of day. Because they are native to high-elevation cool mountain forests, in the warmer months they will generally be in their climate-controlled dayroom habitats.

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An article about the economics of keeping pandas says it costs five times more to keep a panda than the next most expensive animal, an elephant. American zoos generally pay the Chinese government one-million dollars a year in fees as part of a typical ten-year contract.

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Giant panda Xiao Qi Ji roams in his enclosure at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, Sept. 28, 2023. The San Diego Zoo returned its pandas in 2019, and the last bear at the Memphis, Tennessee, zoo went home earlier this year.

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The giraffe house is currently home to the Zoo's Masai giraffe calf 'Mstari' and to 'Kiko', the newest addition to our giraffe family.

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So we had to do it now that they're going away.” The National Zoo's three giant pandas — Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji — are set to return to China in early December with no public signs that the 50-year-old exchange agreement struck by President Richard Nixon will continue.

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MEMPHIS, Tennessee — It's official. On Wednesday, the Memphis Zoo announced their pandas will be heading back to China next year, ending a 20-year-long stay.

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