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Taiwan appears in the archive through long-term conservation partnerships, local institutions, and the pandas connected to them.
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Places in Taiwan
1 location recorded
Panda profiles
Pandas connected to Taiwan
4 pandas recorded
Currently in Taiwan
The active panda profiles tied to institutions in this country.
Yuan Bao
圆宝
6 years old
Taipei Zoo
Yuan Bao (圆宝, "Round Baby") is a female giant panda born June 28, 2020 at Taipei Zoo — the second cub of the famous cros...
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Yuan Yuan
圆圆
22 years old
Taipei Zoo
Yuan Yuan (圆圆, studbook #587) is the female half of the famous cross-strait panda pair "Tuan Yuan" (团团圆圆), gifted to Tai...
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Yuan Zai
圆仔
13 years old
Taipei Zoo
Yuan Zai (圆仔) is a female giant panda born July 6, 2013 at Taipei Zoo — the first giant panda ever born in Taiwan. Daugh...
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Pandas whose birth place is recorded inside this country.
Yuan Bao
圆宝
6 years old
Taipei Zoo
Yuan Bao (圆宝, "Round Baby") is a female giant panda born June 28, 2020 at Taipei Zoo — the second cub of the famous cros...
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圆仔
13 years old
Taipei Zoo
Yuan Zai (圆仔) is a female giant panda born July 6, 2013 at Taipei Zoo — the first giant panda ever born in Taiwan. Daugh...
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Historical panda profiles connected to this country.
Tuan Tuan
团团
22 years old
Taipei Zoo
Tuan Tuan (团团, studbook #588) was the male half of the iconic cross-strait panda pair "Tuan Yuan," gifted to Taiwan in 2...
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Further reading connected to Taiwan
Featured
Culture 📚 general
Where Pandas Live: The Complete Global Distribution Guide
The giant panda diaspora spans 58 locations across continents — from the misty bamboo forests of Sichuan to climate-controlled enclosures in Singapore, from mountain reserves that shelter free-ranging pandas to urban zoos that host celebrities. This article provides the definitive guide to panda geography: where they live, why they're there, what the distribution reveals about conservation history, and how the map has changed from 1869 to today.
distribution geography locations
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Culture 📚 general
Behind Every Name: The Art and Meaning of Naming Giant Pandas
From 'Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan' (symbolizing reunion) to 'Fu Bao' (lucky treasure), every giant panda name carries layers of cultural meaning, political significance, and public sentiment. This article explores the naming traditions, the global naming contests, and how panda nicknames — like Hua Hua's 'Guo Lai' — have become a unique form of modern Chinese internet folk culture.
1 panda
naming culture tradition
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Featured
Culture 📚 general
80 Years of Panda Diplomacy: From Wartime Gifts to Global Research Loans
Trace the transformation of giant panda diplomacy from 1941, when Soong Mei-ling gifted the first pandas to America, through the landmark 1972 Nixon-era exchange, to today's international research loan agreements that channel millions of dollars annually into wild habitat conservation. This is the untold story of how a reclusive mountain bear became the world's most powerful diplomatic animal.
2 pandas
diplomacy history panda-loan
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Nature 📚 general
Tropical Challenge: Keeping Pandas Cool in Singapore and Malaysia
Giant pandas evolved for the cool, misty mountains of Sichuan — yet they have thrived in the equatorial heat of Singapore and Malaysia. This article explores the high-tech climate control systems, indoor enclosure design, and dietary adjustments that make tropical panda keeping possible, and what this extreme-environment success reveals about panda physiological resilience.
4 pandas
tropical climate singapore
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Recent activity
What the archive has recorded here
2026
Aug 30
Yuan Yuan's 22nd Birthday Celebration
Yuan Yuan turns 22 with a "22"-shaped sugarcane candle, an ice bowl of carrot chunks and grapes, and a little-train themed cake. Now a senior panda, she is under Taipei Zoo's dedicated senior-care program.
Read update 2026
Jul 6
Yuan Zai's 13th Birthday World Cup Celebration
Yuan Zai's 13th birthday was livestreamed to over 400 fans with a World Cup themed "cake" — a bamboo-leaf pitch, ice football, sugarcane goal, and a carrot-and-apple championship trophy.
Read update 2026
Jun 28
Yuan Bao's 6th Birthday Space Party
Even with the zoo closed for annual maintenance, Yuan Bao's 6th birthday was celebrated online with bamboo, shaved ice, apple, sugarcane, kiwi, carrot and corn, plus a "space adventure" themed art installation.
Read update 2025
Jun 28
Yuan Yuan gives birth to third cub
Yuan Yuan gave birth to her third daughter at 1:53 PM, weighing 186 grams with a strong cry. Conceived via artificial insemination guided remotely by CCRCGP experts.
Read update 2022
Nov 19
Tuan Tuan euthanized after repeated seizures
After a series of 7 seizures over two days, Tuan Tuan was euthanized under anesthesia. Necropsy confirmed gemistocytic astrocytoma — a primary malignant brain tumor.
Read updateActivity in this country has been recorded in the archive since 2008.
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