Plus, China requires foreign zoos that host pandas on loan to allow older animals to spend their final days on Chinese soil. In the last 10 days of 2022, American and Chinese animal lovers were glued to the news coming in about two giant pandas in Memphis, Tennessee, the U.S. According to a statement from the Memphis Zoo on December 21, Ya Ya, 22, a female panda, and her male companion Le Le, 24, will be returning to China within the next few months due to the expiration of a 20-year loan agreement with the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens. Currently, 12 Chinese giant pandas reside in the U.S., accounting for about one fifth of the total number of giant pandas living overseas. [Extracted from the article]