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Xing Yun

星云

Xing Yun is a female giant panda born on 2021-06-24 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Her studbook registration number is 1252, and she is recorded as alive in official giant panda population databases. She is the offspring of Xiao Qiao and Wei Wei, both captive-bred giant pandas housed at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Her lineage is fully documented as part of the center's coordinated captive breeding program. Currently living at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wenchuan, Sichuan, she participates in the center’s long-term captive breeding and behavioral adaptation research initiatives. The center manages one of the largest captive giant panda populations globally, as part of China’s national giant panda conservation strategy. As a young captive-born giant panda, Xing Yun displays typical foraging and climbing behaviors common to the species. She is a popular subject of public educational content about giant panda conservation, representing the success of coordinated captive breeding programs that have helped downgrade the giant panda from endangered to vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.