Panda Archive

Xin Xin

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Xin Xin is a female giant panda born on 1992-08-10 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. She is recorded as studbook number 459 in global giant panda population tracking, and lived through 27 years before her death in 2019. She is the offspring of Ba Xi (studbook 354) and Yong Ba (studbook 355), both adult giant pandas housed at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda at the time of her birth. Currently living at Chapultepec Zoo, he she participates in the joint giant panda conservation breeding program coordinated between the Mexican park management and Chinese conservation authorities. As one of the few giant pandas born outside of China that survived into adulthood, Xin Xin drew consistent public attention to giant panda conservation efforts in North America. She was a major cultural attraction for Chapultepec Zoo, helping raise public awareness of habitat loss facing wild giant panda populations in China’s Sichuan province. Her life contributed valuable data to international research on giant panda husbandry and long-term care in captive settings.