Bao Er

Bao Er is a male giant panda born on 2019-08-01 at Moscow Zoo. He is listed as studbook number 1153 in the international giant panda studbook system, which tracks the global captive population of the species for conservation management purposes. He is the offspring of Ru Yi (studbook 1150) and Ding Ding (studbook 1151), both giant pandas on long-term loan from China to the Russian Federation. His parents arrived at Moscow Zoo in 2019 as part of a collaborative giant panda conservation program between Chinese and Russian wildlife institutions. Currently living at Moscow Zoo, he participates in the institution's public education programming and global captive breeding research for giant pandas. Moscow Zoo, a leading Eurasian wildlife conservation and education center, facilitates public engagement around giant panda ecology and threats to wild populations. As a subadult captive-born giant panda, Bao Er demonstrates typical foraging and climbing behaviors associated with the species. He is a major cultural attraction for visitors to Moscow Zoo, and contributes to international cooperative efforts to maintain a genetically diverse, sustainable captive giant panda population that supports long-term wild conservation work in China's Qinling and Minshan mountain ranges.