A Panda Sitting on Ice at Xiqu Park, 1975

Title: A Panda Sitting on Ice at Xiqu Park, 1975
Identifier: WFC_116
Description: An adult panda holds a stalk of bamboo while sitting on what appears to be ice in a zoo enclosure.
Commentary: Earl and Katharine Willmott visited the Chongqing Zoo's panda enclosure during their 1975 trip to China. Then called Xiqu Park, this zoo cared for the largest captive panda population in the world at that time. Ice was used to keep the pandas cool in the hot humid climate of Chongqing. To make an ice surface like that would have been part of the recent zoo renovations.
Creator: Leslie Earl Willmott
Date Created: 1975-04-25
Location: Chongqing Zoo (Xiqu Park)
Geonames: Chongqing; https://www.geonames.org/1814906/chongqing.html
Event: 1975 Willmott Trip to China
Original Format: Color slide
Source: Cory Willmott
Provenance: Leslie Earl and Mary Katharine Willmott, to Richard Edward Willmott; scanned by Cory Willmott.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2026-01-10
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
Subject: Giant Panda