A Look Back – Su Lin

/ Post by Pandas International via National Geographic

Eighty years ago the first baby Giant Panda arrived in the United States. The photo of this baby panda (above), by Lotte Jacobi, was published in “Secrets of the Wild Panda” by George B. Schaller in the March 1986 issue of National Geographic. “Making an American debut in 1936,” reads the photo’s caption, “the first live panda to reach the West arrived in the arms of Ruth Harkness, who brought it from China’s Sichuan Province. Chicago’s zoo acquired the cub the following year.