Ao Li Ge

Ao Li Ge (Chinese name: 奥利奥) is a male giant panda born on July 28, 2012 at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan, China. He is registered under studbook number 855 in the global giant panda studbook system, and is confirmed alive in the most recent official census of captive giant pandas. His paternity is traced to Xi Lan, listed under studbook number 608, and his mother is Shin Shin, also known as Cheng Gong with studbook number 610; both of his parents were housed at the Chengdu Research Base at the time of his birth. His full lineage is formally tracked through the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda’s centralized studbook program, which maintains comprehensive genetic records for the global captive giant panda population.

As of the latest official updates, Ao Li Ge remains a resident of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, where he participates in the facility’s core captive breeding program and public education initiatives focused on giant panda conservation. Captive individuals at the base, including Ao Li Ge, support ongoing peer-reviewed research into giant panda behavior, genetic diversity, and habitat adaptation, filling key knowledge gaps that support both captive management and wild population protection efforts. His status as a healthy, captive-born panda with well-documented lineage makes his genetic material a valuable contribution to maintaining the diversity of the global captive giant panda population, a core component of long-term species conservation planning.

Ao Li Ge is a popular attraction for both domestic and international visitors to the Chengdu Research Base. He exhibits typical species-specific behaviors, spending the majority of his daily activity cycle feeding on bamboo and resting, which gives visitors unobstructed, naturalistic observations of giant panda ecology. These public encounters play a measurable role in raising broad public awareness of the threats facing wild giant panda populations, including habitat fragmentation and climate change, and drive support for conservation interventions across the species’ native range in southwest China.