Chinese experts to probe panda Chuang Chuang's death in Thai zoo

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Animal experts from China are to arrive at a Thai zoo on Thursday to investigate the unexpected death of a giant panda in the northern city of ...

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BANGKOK: Animal experts from China are to arrive at a Thai zoo on Thursday to investigate thePhotos on Wednesday showed Thai mourners and zoo staff laying flowers near the empty enclosure of Chuang Chuang at age 19 at the Chiang Mai Zoo."We loved and nurtured him so much. I hope everyone will miss him like we do," zoo keeper Kannikar Chantarangsi told reporters on Tuesday.

"The Chiang Mai Zoo will wait for experts from China to arrive. All the relevant Chinese agencies have been informed and we will conduct the autopsy together," Wuttichai Muangmun, director of Chiang Mai Zoo told reporters. The death has caused a stir in Chuang Chuang's native China, where a hashtag about the death drew 250 million views on social media site Weibo and some Chinese users blamed the Thai zoo.Chuang Chuang and his partner Lin Hui - now Thailand's only remaining panda - were celebrities in Thailand after Lin Hui gave birth in 2009. Baby pandas are rarely born in captivity and the animal was eventually returned to China.

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