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Bao Mei
宝妹
alive female
Born July 6, 2019
Bao Mei (宝妹) is a female giant panda born July 6, 2019 at Chengdu Base. Twin of Bao Ge (宝哥), she and her brother made history as the heaviest newborn captive panda twins ever recorded — Bao Mei weighed 209 grams and Bao Ge 211.6 grams, both shattering the average twin birth weight of ~150g. Their mother is A Bao (阿宝/宝兰), a returned overseas panda from Atlanta.
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July 6, 2019
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Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding
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Bao Mei (宝妹) is a female giant panda born July 6, 2019 at Chengdu Base. Twin of Bao Ge (宝哥), she and her brother made history as the heaviest newborn captive panda twins ever recorded — Bao Mei weighed 209 grams and Bao Ge 211.6 grams, both shattering the average twin birth weight of ~150g. Their mother is A Bao (阿宝/宝兰), a returned overseas panda from Atlanta.
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Bao Mei (Chinese: 宝妹) is a female giant panda born on July 6, 2019 at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, weighing 209 grams at 9:28 AM. Her twin brother Bao Ge (宝哥) was born 1 hour 47 minutes earlier at 7:41 AM, weighing 211.6 grams.
Her mother is A Bao (阿宝/宝兰, studbook 801) — a returned overseas panda born at Zoo Atlanta — and her father is Ying Ying (迎迎, studbook 596). She has a younger brother Bao Xin (宝新), born 2021, who tragically died in 2023.
Record-Breaking Birth
Together with Bao Ge, Bao Mei set the global record for heaviest newborn captive giant panda twins. Normally, captive panda twins average around 150 grams each, and typically one twin is significantly lighter. Bao Mei and Bao Ge both exceeded 200 grams — an unprecedented achievement that drew attention from researchers worldwide.
The birth was mother A Bao’s first litter, and she demonstrated capable maternal instincts from the start.
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Chengdu, China
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