Basi (giant panda)

Basi (Chinese: 巴斯; pinyin: Bāsī; 1980 – 13 September 2017) was a female giant panda.^[1][2] Since Jia Jia's death in 2016 at age 38, she was the oldest living panda in captivity.^[3][4]

Basi eating bamboo in 2012.

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