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Ao Li Ge

奥莉奥

alive male Born July 28, 2012

Ao Li Ge (奥莉奥, studbook #839, "Oreo") is a male giant panda born on July 28, 2012, the London Olympics opening day, at the Chengdu Research Base — the base's first globally named "Olympic panda" (named October 29, 2012). Son of Yong Yong (#584) and Li Li (#387), half-brother of Yuan Run (#853) and Miao Miao (#855). Now at Dujiangyan Panda Valley.

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July 28, 2012

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Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding

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#839

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⚠️ Number correction (2026-09): This panda was long carried on this site as studbook #855 — that number belongs to the female star panda Miao Miao (娇淼淼, #855). Per Baidu Baike (very high confidence) and the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Foundation, Ao Li Ge is #839; the old page was a template stub with contradictory parentage (Xi Lan / Cheng Gong “Mao Mao × Yong Yong”), now rewritten.

⚠️ Do not confuse with Miao Miao (#855) — his Chengdu-born half-sister through sire Yong Yong. They are different individuals (see Miao Miao #855).

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Ao Li Ge (Chinese: 奥莉奥, English nickname “Oreo”), studbook number 839, is a male giant panda born on July 28, 2012 at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding — the day the London Olympics opened, making him the base’s first giant panda named through a global public naming campaign. Birth weight: 162 grams.

Relation	Name	Studbook
Mother	Li Li (莉莉)	387
Father	Yong Yong (勇勇)	584
Paternal grandparents	Ping Ping (屏屏) ✅ / Shu Qing (蜀庆) ✅	377 / 480
Maternal grandparents	Chuan Chuan (川川) 📝 / Qing Qing (庆庆) ✅	202 📝 / 278
Half-sister (paternal)	Yuan Run (园润)	853
Half-sister (paternal)	Miao Miao (淼淼)	855

📝 Baidu Baike’s family panel records Shu Qing as #480 — independent cross-validation of this site’s earlier correction of Shu Qing 485 → 480. ✅ Confirmed (2026-09): Shu Qing = #480 (Sohu “Yong Yong” entry: Yong Yong is Shu Qing’s son) and Qing Qing = #278 (Baidu Baike: born 1984-09-09, dam Mei Mei, mother of Li Li #387) — so #480 is Ao Li Ge’s paternal grandmother and #278 his maternal grandmother. 📝 Ping Ping (#377) confirmed: Baidu Baike’s Ao Li Ge individual archive directly lists the paternal grandparents as Ping Ping (#377) and Shu Qing (#480), the maternal grandparents as Chuan Chuan (#202) and Qing Qing (#278) — consistent with Yong Yong being Shu Qing’s son and Qing Qing being Li Li’s dam.

📝 Chuan Chuan: #202 retained, pending dedicated sourcing: #202 and #231 refer to two homonym pandas. The #231 Chuan Chuan (born Baoxing, 1980-09) lived at Shanghai Zoo from 1982 with his lifelong mate Xin Xing (新星) and died there 2010-04 — he cannot be the sire of Ya Ya (#362) or Li Li (#387) born in Chengdu. The Chuan Chuan that sired Li Li (#387) is recorded only as #202 (from the Baidu Ao Li Ge archive, a secondary source with no dedicated article yet), so the number stays 📝 pending.

Life Journey

2012-07-28: Born at Chengdu Base on the London Olympics opening day; 162 g.
2012-10-29: Named “Ao Li Ge / Oreo” from 8,000+ public submissions (proposed by Rebecca, a US “Panda Ambassador”; Oreo means “beautiful” in Greek).
2014-02-04: Appeared with other star pandas on CCTV’s Xinwen Lianbo New Year greeting.
2014: His “jailbreak” head-stuck-in-bars video went viral.
2014-02-12: Entered the nursery’s “Seven Little Fortunes” (七小福) cohort with Miao Miao, Yuan Run, Cheng Shuang, Cheng Dui, Si Yi and Xiao Qiao; earlier raised by foster mother Li Li in the “Sun Nursery F4”.
2015-12-30: Transferred to Dujiangyan Panda Valley (Chengdu Base’s Dujiangyan facility), where he, Yuan Run and Miao Miao became the famous “Coal-Mining Trio” (挖煤三巨头, “Ao Family Coal Group”).
2022-05-19: Lifelong-adopted by Mondelez’s Oreo cookie brand (together with niece Ya Song, “Little Oreo”).
Current: Resident of Dujiangyan Panda Valley (熊猫谷). 📝 Pending verification: it is not publicly confirmed whether the April 23, 2026 closure of the Dujiangyan China Giant Panda Hall (都江堰中华大熊猫苑, 盼盼园) affects Panda Valley (玉堂镇) — the two are different facilities on current records.

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Cheng Da #824 He Sheng #876 He Xing #875 Miao Miao #855 Rou Rou #991 Ya Er #904 Yuan Run #853

Ai Li #811

Ao Li Ge has 8 half-siblings. The majority share the same father, Yong Yong , indicating a highly prolific paternal lineage.

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