Tokyo zoo's male giant panda leaves for Mexico to mate

TOKYO, Japan - Ling Ling, a 15-year-old giant panda, leaves the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo on Jan. 29 for Mexico City, where he will stay at a famed zoo for about three months and hopefully mate. Zoo officials said it has been agreed that should the mating be successful, the first offspring will go to the Ueno Zoo and the second to Chapultepec Zoo, which at the moment houses three female pandas.

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