The First Panda in America
Nov 26, 2013•9 min
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Episode description
In November 1936, a US socialite and her Chinese-American guide captured a giant panda cub in the forests of China. Ruth Harkness took the cub to the USA and kept it in her New York flat, before selling it to a Chicago zoo.
Photo: Quentin Young, the panda cub and Ruth Harkness. Courtesy of Jolly Young.
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