Panda Archive

Qiao Qiao

乔乔

Qiao Qiao is a female giant panda born on 2013-05-26 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. She is listed as studbook number 870 in the global registry of captive giant pandas, and remains alive as of 2024. She is the offspring of Pan Pan, studbook 432, and Xue Xue, studbook 685. Both of her parents are registered captive giant pandas that have been part of coordinated breeding management at the China Conservation and Research Center. Currently living at the China Conservation and Research Center’s Wolong Base in Sichuan Province, China, she participates in the center’s coordinated captive breeding program for giant pandas. The program aims to maintain genetic diversity within the global captive giant panda population. As an adult captive female giant panda, she displays typical foraging behaviors, spending an average of 10 to 12 hours daily feeding on bamboo. She is a common subject of wildlife observation programs for researchers, and contributes to public education about giant panda conservation. Giant panda breeding programs like the one she joins have supported the species’ reclassification from Endangered to Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.