Bo Si

Basic Profile

Bo Si (Chinese: 博斯), studbook number 750, is a female giant panda born on August 7, 2009 at the China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Pandas (CCRCGP) Ya’an Bifengxia Base. Her mother is Tian Tian (甜甜, studbook 569) — the Edinburgh female — and her father is Xi Meng (希梦, studbook 474).

Her twin brother is Shen Wei (绅威, studbook 751).

The Asian Games Predictor (2010)

On October 27, 2010, Bo Si was one of six pandas flown to Guangzhou aboard a China Southern “Asian Games” charter flight, joining six existing pandas at Xiangjiang Safari World (Chimelong) to form the “Asian Games Panda Group” — 12 pandas assembled to promote the 16th Asian Games.

During the Games, Bo Si gained a peculiar kind of fame. Keepers began hiding food in her enclosure and found that she consistently located it faster than any other panda. A playful narrative developed: if Bo Si found the food quickly, it meant China would win gold that day. She was dubbed the “gold medal predictor” — and remarkably, her “predictions” were accurate enough that the story was picked up by the media.

Wild Training Mother (2018–present)

Since 2018, Bo Si has been a participant in CCRCGP’s wild training program, using the mother-rearing method (母兽带崽法). She raises her cubs in semi-wild enclosures with minimal human contact, teaching them foraging and survival skills. Her keepers describe her as having excellent wild survival instincts and rich maternal experience.

Offspring

Name	Studbook	Birth	Notes
Xing An (兴安)	1097	2017-08-07	Male
Ming Ming (明明)	1098	2017-08-07	Male; at Yueyang Panda Garden
Xiang Ye (向野)	1152	2018-08-13	Male; wild training participant
Tian Tian (田田)	1153	2018-08-13	Female; twin of Xiang Ye
Rong Sheng (融生)	—	2022-06-21	Female twin; wild training participant
Qing Ci (青糍)	—	2022-06-21	Female twin; died 2024 from intestinal obstruction

In June 2022, Bo Si gave birth to the first giant panda twins born globally that year. One cub (Rong Sheng) entered the wild training program; the other, Qing Ci, tragically died in March 2024 from a rare intestinal obstruction — the first such case documented at CCRCGP.