A female giant panda that the Japanese city of Kobe has been renting from China for breeding purposes will be sent back home after the lease agreement ends in July, the city said Tuesday.The departure of Tan Tan will bring the total number of pandas in Japan to nine -- three in Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo and six in Adventure World in Wakayama Prefecture in western Japan.The 24-year-old panda, the equivalent age of between 60 and 70 in human years, came to Kobe Oji Zoo in 2000 and bred in 2008 through artificial insemination. Tan Tan had a live birth, but the cub died a short time late…READ FULL ARTICLE
