Anthony Rapp

Did you know...

...that on this day in 1936 Su-Lin became the first panda to be imported into the US? Tragically Su-Lin died in 1938 (reportedly from choking on a stick). It is unlikely that attempts to breed pandas in captivity during these early days would have been successful, since no one (except the pandas) seemed to be able to tell whether a panda was male or female! It wasn't until 1963 that a panda was bred and born in captivity.