Tuan Bao

Tuan Bao is a male giant panda born on 2020-06-28 at Taipei Zoo. He holds studbook number 1265 in the global captive giant panda registry, and remains in good health as of the most recent official population updates. He is the offspring of Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, both giant pandas on long-term loan from the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda to Taipei Zoo. His parents were gifted to Taiwan from mainland China in 2008 as part of cross-strait cultural and conservation exchange efforts. Currently living at Taipei Zoo, he participates in the zoo’s public education programming and global captive giant panda breeding monitoring initiatives. Taipei Zoo is Taiwan’s largest public zoological institution, drawing millions of annual visitors who specifically come to view its giant panda collection. As a gentle, bamboo-feeding giant panda, Tuan Bao has become a popular cultural attraction for local visitors and tourists alike. Captive-born giant pandas like him support critical research into giant panda biology and help build public support for the conservation of the species’ remaining wild mountain habitats in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu, China, where the species is classified as vulnerable by the IUCN.