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 Ming Ming, the world’s oldest panda in captivity, passed away on May 7, 2011, at China’s Panyu Xiangjiang Wild Animal World. In the wild, giant pandas generally live to be about 15 years old, but Ming Ming was 34 when, despite the best efforts of Guangzhou University veterinarians to stem the effects old age was having on her various organs in recent months, she succumbed to kidney failure R.I.P.