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Taipei Zoo

zoo Taipei, Taiwan

Taipei Zoo, located in Wenshan District of Taipei, Taiwan, is the oldest and largest zoological institution in Taiwan, originally established as the Maruyama Zoo during the Japanese colonial period in 1914 before relocating to its current site in 1986. As a member of the Southeast Asian Zoos and Aquariums Association, it manages a 165-hectare campus that hosts more than 2,000 individuals of 300 species, including critically endangered taxa such as Ailuropoda melanoleuca (giant panda), Panthera tigris amoyensis (South China tiger), and Chelonia mydas (green sea turtle), with its conservation work overseen by the Taipei City Government Department of Information and Tourism. The zoo’s most famous residents, giant pandas Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, arrived in 2008 under a cross-strait cultural exchange agreement, and their 2013 cub Yuan Zai became the first giant panda successfully born and raised in Taiwan, a joint achievement with the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant

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Panda conservation location

Place Statistics

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Total Pandas Hosted

7

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Currently Living

6

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First Arrival

2005

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Births Recorded

4

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International Transfers

2

Panda Residents

Currently at Taipei Zoo

6 pandas

Tuan Bao

团宝

Alive
5 years old
Taipei Zoo

Tuan Bao is a male giant panda born on 2020-06-28 at Taipei Zoo. He holds studbook number 1265 in the global captive gia...

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Tuan Tuan Jr.

圆仔

Alive
12 years old
Taipei Zoo

Tuan Tuan Jr. is a male giant panda born on 2013-07-06 at Taipei Zoo. He is registered as studbook number 987 in the glo...

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Yuan Bao

圆宝

Alive
5 years old
Taipei Zoo

Yuan Bao is a female giant panda born on 2020-06-28 at Taipei Zoo. Her studbook number is 1264, and she is recorded in t...

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Yuan Yuan

圆圆

Alive
21 years old
Taipei Zoo

Yuan Yuan is a female giant panda born on 2004-08-30 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. ...

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Yuan Yuan

圆圆

Alive
21 years old
Taipei Zoo

Yuan Yuan is a female giant panda born on 2004-08-31 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. ...

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Yuan Zai

圆仔

Alive
12 years old
Taipei Zoo

Yuan Zai is a female giant panda born on 2013-07-06 at Taipei Zoo. Her official studbook number is 887, and she has rema...

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Previously at Taipei Zoo

1 pandas

Tuan Tuan

团团

Deceased
21 years old
Taipei Zoo

Tuan Tuan is a male giant panda born on 2004-09-01 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. H...

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Born at Taipei Zoo

4 pandas

Tuan Bao

团宝

Alive
5 years old
Taipei Zoo

Tuan Bao is a male giant panda born on 2020-06-28 at Taipei Zoo. He holds studbook number 1265 in the global captive gia...

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Tuan Tuan Jr.

圆仔

Alive
12 years old
Taipei Zoo

Tuan Tuan Jr. is a male giant panda born on 2013-07-06 at Taipei Zoo. He is registered as studbook number 987 in the glo...

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Yuan Bao

圆宝

Alive
5 years old
Taipei Zoo

Yuan Bao is a female giant panda born on 2020-06-28 at Taipei Zoo. Her studbook number is 1264, and she is recorded in t...

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Yuan Zai

圆仔

Alive
12 years old
Taipei Zoo

Yuan Zai is a female giant panda born on 2013-07-06 at Taipei Zoo. Her official studbook number is 887, and she has rema...

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Timeline at Taipei Zoo

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2020
Jun 28

Birth of Tuan Bao

Tuan Bao was born at taipei_zoo.

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2020
Jun 28

Birth of Yuan Bao

Yuan Bao was born at taipei_zoo.

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2013
Jul 6

Birth of Tuan Tuan Jr.

Tuan Tuan Jr. was born at taipei_zoo.

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2013
Jul 6

Birth of Yuan Zai

Yuan Zai was born at taipei_zoo.

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2005
Sep 1

Tuan Tuan transferred to taipei_zoo

Tuan Tuan moved to taipei_zoo.

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2005
Aug 31

Yuan Yuan transferred to taipei_zoo

Yuan Yuan moved to taipei_zoo.

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Coordinates: 24.9983° N, 121.5811° E

About Taipei Zoo

Taipei Zoo, located in Wenshan District of Taipei, Taiwan, is the oldest and largest zoological institution in Taiwan, originally established as the Maruyama Zoo during the Japanese colonial period in 1914 before relocating to its current site in 1986. As a member of the Southeast Asian Zoos and Aquariums Association, it manages a 165-hectare campus that hosts more than 2,000 individuals of 300 species, including critically endangered taxa such as Ailuropoda melanoleuca (giant panda), Panthera tigris amoyensis (South China tiger), and Chelonia mydas (green sea turtle), with its conservation work overseen by the Taipei City Government Department of Information and Tourism. The zoo’s most famous residents, giant pandas Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, arrived in 2008 under a cross-strait cultural exchange agreement, and their 2013 cub Yuan Zai became the first giant panda successfully born and raised in Taiwan, a joint achievement with the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant