Theodore Reed, Who Lifted National Zoo’s Profile 7/25/1922
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National Zoological Park of the Smithsonian Institution — lacked financial support until the celebrity pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing
arrived in 1972. Zoos around the country had competed intensely for rights to the pandas but Dr. Reed lobbied hard and won the case for Washington, where
negotiating budgets for his publicly financed zoo over the past 14 years (THIS IS THE PLUTO COMPONENT)
had made him an adept navigator of the political terrain.
In 1982, after six or seven years of trying to breed Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, Dr. Reed told a reporter, “I have come to the conclusion that unlike humans, most animals will not breed if they don’t like each other.” The pandas eventually grew friendlier, and Ling-Ling became pregnant five times, though none of the cubs she bore survived for more than a few days.
In 1982, after six or seven years of trying to breed Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, Dr. Reed told a reporter, “I have come to the conclusion that unlike humans, most animals will not breed if they don’t like each other.” The pandas eventually grew friendlier, and Ling-Ling became pregnant five times, though none of the cubs she bore survived for more than a few days.
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