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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mohammad Samra

Pandas are leaving U.S. zoos. They made their American debut in Chicago.

Ruth Harkness (left) with pandas Mei Mei (left) and Su Lin (right) at Brookfield Zoo in 1938. (Chicago Zoological Society/Brookfield Zoo)

The future of pandas at zoos across the United States may not be black and white.

Three giant pandas, Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji, who resided in Washington, D.C.’s, National Zoo, began their trip to China last Wednesday, leaving behind an empty panda exhibit with no certainty pandas would ever again take up residence there.

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