Panda Archive

You Hin

优浜

You Hin is a female giant panda born on 2003-08-23 at Adventure World, Japan. She is registered as individual 600 in the international giant panda studbook, which tracks the genetic and demographic status of the global captive giant panda population. Her birth marked a successful captive breeding event for Adventure World, a Japanese wildlife park that has hosted giant pandas since the 1990s. She is the offspring of Yong Ming (studbook 416) and Mei Mei (studbook 554). Both of her parents are giant pandas originally from the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Sichuan, China, on long-term loan to Adventure World for collaborative research and conservation breeding. Currently living at Adventure World, Japan, she participates in the facility’s giant panda captive breeding and public education programs. The park uses her presence to inform global visitors about the ecology of giant pandas and ongoing threats to wild giant panda populations in central China. As one of the longest-residing giant pandas at Adventure World, You Hin displays the species-characteristic herbivorous diet, feeding primarily on locally sourced bamboo, and spends most of her daytime hours resting and foraging. She is a popular cultural attraction for domestic and international tourists, and supports ongoing research into captive giant panda behavior that informs global conservation management strategies for the species.