Chapultepec Zoo
Historic city zoo where a keeper spent two decades caring for Latin America's last giant panda.
This guide to Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City follows Elias Garcia Ramirez, a longtime keeper handed the panda enclosure as what colleagues meant as a joke, and the panda he has cared for since, Xin Xin, granddaughter of the breeding pair China gifted Mexico in 1975. It traces the family line through Xin Xin's grandmother, the first giant panda born through captive breeding outside China, and her cousin Tohui, watched around the clock by camera and later celebrated in song. Garcia still checks Xin Xin's paws and portions her bamboo by hand each morning, working alongside a veterinarian who has tended her for a decade.
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