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4 unusual facts about Su-Lin Young


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Su-Lin Young (1911–2008), Chinese American explorer of the Himalayas

Su-Lin Young

Young returned to the United States in the 1950s living in Virginia, California, and North Carolina.

In 1934, she arrived in southwestern China as a newlywed with her husband Jack Young and his younger brother Quentin Young to gather animal specimens and catalog plants for the American Museum of Natural History on an expedition financed by Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

In Shanghai, Young met explorer Ruth Harkness, another American woman, who captured the first giant panda to be sent the United States.



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