Panda Archive

Tohui

多惠

Tohui is a female giant panda born on 1981-07-21 at Chapultepec Zoo. She holds studbook number 251 in the international giant panda registry, and was the first giant panda born successfully in captivity outside of China. She is the offspring of Ying Ying and Pe Pe, two giant pandas loaned to Mexico from China to support ex-situ conservation research and public education. Currently living at Chapultepec Zoo, he/she participates in long-term public education programming focused on giant panda ecology and global threatened species conservation. As a deceased individual, she remains preserved on public display at the institution for educational purposes. As the first captive-born giant panda to survive outside China, Tohui drew global public attention to giant panda conservation. She became a major cultural icon for Mexico, and demonstrated that ex-situ breeding of giant pandas could succeed outside their native range in Sichuan, supporting coordinated global conservation efforts led by the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens and the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums.