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Su Lin was the first live panda in the United States. Ruth Harkness captured Su Lin in Szechwan, China during her expedition and brought him to the U.S. to raise awarness of the threat that hunting posed to pandas.
Su Lin arrived at the Brookfiled Zoo February 1937 and died there of pneumonia, at about two years old, in April 1938. An autopsy revealed that Su Lin-thought to be female-was really male. His body was sent to The Field Museum for scientific study and eventual display.
During his brief life, Su Lin charmed Brookfield Zoo visitors, and the entire country. He appeared frequently in the press, newsreels, and on the radio.
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Once when I was a kid my mom came into my room to see how I was doing on my drawing and found it shredded all over the floor. She asked why I would destroy such a beautiful picture. I didn’t know how to tell her that the paper and I were fighting and the pen just wouldn’t make the image I had in my head so I tore the drawing in half and ripping it felt really good so I did it again and again and then I wanted to see how small I could make the pieces and then it looked like snow like I had a hand full of snow and that was new for a boy who grew up in California and then I threw it in the air and it fell down in flutters that caught the light and landed all over my head and shoulders and it was like magic, so I said I didn’t like it. More...
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