Chiba Zoo — Fūta the red panda (千葉市動物公園) 千葉市動物公園
Fūta, aged 23: the oldest red panda in the world, with 83 descendants in all.
Chiba Zoological Park opened in 1985 and now houses 124 species over an area of about 340,000 m², with an educational trail called Academia Animalium since 2020. It became known throughout Japan from 2005 thanks to Fūta, the red panda who stood up on his hind legs, setting off a nationwide craze for the species: the zoo still keeps six of them today, including Fūta himself, now over ninety in human years and the oldest red panda in the world according to the international records.
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