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Mei Lan

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Mei Lan is a male giant panda born on 2006-09-06 at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. He holds studbook number 649 in the global giant panda studbook system maintained to track captive populations of the species. He is the offspring of Tiantian (studbook 455) and Yaya (studbook 490), both adult giant pandas housed at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. His lineage is part of the base’s managed captive breeding program designed to maintain genetic diversity for the species. Currently living at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, he participates in the base’s captive breeding and public education initiatives. As a healthy adult male, he contributes to the base’s efforts to sustain a viable ex-situ population of giant pandas. Mei Lan displays the species-characteristic reliance on bamboo as his primary food source, and is a common attraction for domestic and international visitors to the Chengdu base. As a member of a globally recognized vulnerable species, he supports public awareness of giant panda conservation, and helps advance scientific understanding of captive giant panda biology.