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Su Shan

苏珊

Su Shan is a female giant panda born on 2013-07-06 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. She is listed as studbook number 846 in the global giant panda studbook managed by international conservation organizations, confirming her documented status as a living captive-bred individual. She is the offspring of Gu Gu (studbook 432) and Xi Mei (studbook 685), both giant pandas held at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda at the time of her birth. Her lineage is part of the center’s managed breeding program designed to maintain genetic diversity within the captive giant panda population. Currently living at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Sichuan Province, she participates in the center’s captive breeding and behavioral research initiatives focused on giant panda ecology and rewilding preparedness. Her daily activities and health are monitored by center veterinary and research staff to support long-term conservation goals. As a captive-bred giant panda, Su Shan displays typical species traits, including a diet dominated by bamboo and primarily solitary activity patterns. Giant pandas like Su Shan serve as global icons of biodiversity conservation, and her participation in breeding programs supports the long-term survival of the species, which was upgraded from Endangered to Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List due to decades of coordinated conservation work in China.