Tao Bin

Tao Bin is a female giant panda born on 2014-12-02 at Adventure World. She is registered as number 925 in the global giant panda studbook, a centralized catalog that tracks the genetic makeup of all captive giant pandas worldwide to support managed breeding programs. She is the offspring of Yong Ming, studbook number 395, and Mei Mei, studbook number 513. Both of her parents are adult giant pandas that resided at Adventure World in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan at the time of her birth, as part of a long-term international giant panda conservation collaboration. Currently living at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Sichuan Province, she participates in the center’s captive breeding and public education programs. The center is the world’s leading facility for giant panda research and ex situ conservation, housing more than a third of the global captive giant panda population. As a giant panda, Tao Bin displays species-typical foraging behavior, spending approximately 12 to 14 hours daily consuming bamboo. She is a popular figure in both Japanese and Chinese wildlife media, and her participation in cooperative breeding programs supports genetic diversity goals for the vulnerable giant panda species, contributing to long-term species conservation efforts.