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Cheng Feng

成风

Cheng Feng is a female giant panda born on 2020-06-20 at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. She is registered under studbook number 911 in the global giant panda studbook system maintained by international conservation organizations. This base, located in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, is one of the world’s leading facilities for giant panda captive breeding and research. She is the offspring of Ba Si (studbook 871) and Yuan Yuan (studbook 872), both giant pandas housed long-term at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Her lineage fits into the base’s planned captive breeding program, which focuses on maintaining genetic diversity for the giant panda population. Currently living at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, she participates in the facility’s public education and behavioral research programs. Giant pandas at the base are regularly observed to document foraging, social interaction and activity patterns to support wild population conservation efforts. As a young captive-bred giant panda, Cheng Feng demonstrates typical species traits: she spends more than 10 hours daily foraging on bamboo, and displays the climbing behavior common to juvenile individuals of the species. She is a popular attraction for domestic and international visitors to Chengdu, and contributes to the broader success of giant panda conservation, which has downgraded the species from Endangered to Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.