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Places in Austria
2 locations recorded
Panda profiles
Pandas connected to Austria
10 pandas recorded
Currently in Austria
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Dun Dun
顿顿
5 years old
Tiergarten Schönbrunn
Dun Dun (顿顿, studbook #1336), also known as Lan Yun (兰韵), is a female giant panda born July 29, 2020 at the Wolong Shens...
View profileFeng Feng
凡凡
12 years old
China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda
Feng Feng (凡凡, studbook #905) is a female giant panda born on 2013-08-14 at Vienna Zoo. She currently lives at the China...
View profileFu Ban
福伴
9 years old
China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda
Fu Ban (福伴, studbook #1027) is a male giant panda born August 7, 2016 at Vienna's Schonbrunn Zoo. Twin of Fu Feng, he an...
View profileFu Ban
福伴
9 years old
China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda
Fu Ban is a male giant panda born on 2016-08-07 at Schönbrunn Zoo. He holds studbook number 1033 in the global giant pan...
View profileFu Bao
福豹
12 years old
China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda
Fu Bao (福豹, studbook #887) is a male giant panda born August 14, 2013 at Vienna's Schonbrunn Zoo — the third cub of Yang...
View profileFu Feng
福凤
9 years old
China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda
Fu Feng (福凤), studbook #1026, is a female giant panda born August 7, 2016 at Vienna's Schönbrunn Zoo — one half of the w...
captive-bred schonbrunn austria
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Born in Austria
Pandas whose birth place is recorded inside this country.
Feng Feng
凡凡
12 years old
Tiergarten Schönbrunn
Feng Feng (凡凡, studbook #905) is a female giant panda born on 2013-08-14 at Vienna Zoo. She currently lives at the China...
View profileFu Ban
福伴
9 years old
Tiergarten Schönbrunn
Fu Ban (福伴, studbook #1027) is a male giant panda born August 7, 2016 at Vienna's Schonbrunn Zoo. Twin of Fu Feng, he an...
View profileFu Ban
福伴
9 years old
Tiergarten Schönbrunn
Fu Ban is a male giant panda born on 2016-08-07 at Schönbrunn Zoo. He holds studbook number 1033 in the global giant pan...
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Historical panda profiles connected to this country.
Long Hui
龙徽
25 years old
Tiergarten Schönbrunn
Long Hui was a male giant panda born on September 26, 2000 at the Wolong Hetaoping Base. He moved to Vienna's Schonbrunn...
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Further reading connected to Austria
Featured
Culture 📚 general
Where Pandas Live: The Complete Global Distribution Guide
The giant panda diaspora spans 58 locations across continents — from the misty bamboo forests of Sichuan to climate-controlled enclosures in Singapore, from mountain reserves that shelter free-ranging pandas to urban zoos that host celebrities. This article provides the definitive guide to panda geography: where they live, why they're there, what the distribution reveals about conservation history, and how the map has changed from 1869 to today.
distribution geography locations
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Nature 📚 general
Feeding Pandas Across Europe: The Transnational Bamboo Supply Chain
Every panda in a European zoo eats 12-38 kilograms of fresh bamboo daily — none of which grows naturally in European forests. This article traces the hidden logistics infrastructure: dedicated plantations in southern France, weekly refrigerated truck deliveries crossing borders, the economics of panda food, and the emergency networks that keep pandas fed when supply chains break.
1 panda
europe bamboo supply-chain
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Nature 📚 general
Vienna's Miracle: How Schönbrunn Zoo Achieves Natural Panda Mating
The Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna is the only zoo in Europe where giant pandas have consistently achieved natural mating without artificial insemination. This article examines the environmental, behavioral, and husbandry factors — enclosure design, minimal human interference, seasonal light cycling — that have made Vienna the global model for natural panda reproduction.
3 pandas
vienna natural-mating breeding
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Featured
Nature 🔬 advanced
The 72-Hour Window: Panda Estrus, Delayed Implantation, and the Science of Making Cubs
A female giant panda is fertile for just 24-72 hours per year — the narrowest reproductive window of any large mammal. This article explores the intricate biology of panda reproduction: the hormonal cascade that triggers estrus, the phenomenon of embryonic diapause (delayed implantation), the challenges of artificial insemination, and why captive breeding was so difficult for so long.
3 pandas
reproduction estrus breeding
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Recent activity
What the archive has recorded here
2019
Apr 15
2016
Dec 9
Long Hui dies during tumor surgery
Long Hui died from cardiac arrest during anesthesia for a tumor surgery at Schonbrunn Zoo.
Read update 2016
Nov 23
Fu Feng Named at Schönbrunn Zoo
Fu Feng was officially named "福凤" (Happy Phoenix) at a ceremony attended by the Chinese Ambassador to Austria and the Austrian Vice-Chancellor.
Read update 2016
Aug 7
Birth of Fu Ban
Fu Ban (福伴) was born at Schönbrunn Zoo alongside his twin sister Fu Feng — the world's first twin cubs raised entirely by their mother through natural maternal care, with no hand-rearing needed.
Read update 2016
Aug 7
Birth of Fu Feng
Fu Feng was born at Schönbrunn Zoo alongside her twin brother Fu Ban — together they made history as the world's first twin pandas raised entirely by their mother without human assistance.
Read updateActivity in this country has been recorded in the archive since 2003.
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