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Shuang Shuang

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Shuang Shuang is a female giant panda born on 2012-07-15 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. She is registered under studbook number 867, and remains alive as of 2024. This giant panda’s early development took place in the center’s Wolcott base, where she was raised alongside other captive-bred juvenile pandas. She is the offspring of Xi Bang and Xue Xue. Both of her parents are captive-bred giant pandas housed at the China Conservation and Research Center, with established studbook records as part of the center’s coordinated breeding program. Her lineage traces back to wild pandas captured in the Min Mountains of Sichuan Province, a core giant panda habitat in southwest China. Currently living at the China Conservation and Research Center’s Wolong base in Sichuan Province, she participates in the center’s ex-situ conservation breeding program for giant pandas. The program aims to maintain a genetically diverse, demographically stable captive population to support potential future reintroduction efforts for the species. She also contributes to public education programming hosted at the center. As a captive-bred giant panda, Shuang Shuang demonstrates typical foraging behaviors, spending more than 10 hours daily consuming bamboo. She is featured in public educational materials from the China Conservation and Research Center, helping raise global awareness of giant panda conservation. Her genetic diversity makes her a valuable contributor to the long-term survival of the species, which was downgraded from Endangered to Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List in 2016 due to coordinated conservation work.