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DUJIANGYUAN, China, July 18 (UPI) -- A wild giant panda was captured after leading rescuers on a daylong chase through a Chinese city.
Residents of Dujiangyuan initially thought they had spotted a burglar, but it turned out to be a 130-pound female panda, the BBC reported.
The panda, believed to be four to five-years-old, took off over the rooftops and swam a river before climbing a tree, from which it was brought down using a tranquilizer gun and a rope. It is being treated at a giant panda research center in Sichuan province.
Experts told state news agency Xinhua the panda could have been looking for a mate or had been driven from its home by its mother. The panda is suffering from liver and kidney disease and injured her paws in the chase.
There are fewer than 1,600 giant pandas living in the wild in western China, the news agency said.
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