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Places in Mexico
2 locations recorded
Guadalajara Zoo
瓜达拉哈拉动物园
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Mexico · Guadalajara
20.6700, -103.4100
Guadalajara Zoo is a zoo in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, known for hosting giant pandas.
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Pandas connected to Mexico
8 pandas recorded
Currently in Mexico
The active panda profiles tied to institutions in this country.
Xin Xin
欣欣
36 years old
Chapultepec Zoo
Xin Xin (欣欣, "Hope", studbook #360) is a female giant panda born July 1, 1990 at Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City. She is ...
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Pandas whose birth place is recorded inside this country.
Shuan Shuan
双双
39 years old
Chapultepec Zoo
Shuan Shuan (双双, "Double") was a female giant panda born at Mexico City's Chapultepec Zoo in 1987. The seventh and last ...
View profileShuang Shuang
双双
39 years old
Chapultepec Zoo
Shuang Shuang (双双, studbook #332) was a female giant panda born June 15, 1987 at Mexico City's Chapultepec Zoo — the sec...
View profileTohui
多惠
44 years old
Chapultepec Zoo
Tohui (多惠, studbook #251) was a female giant panda born July 21, 1981 at Mexico City's Chapultepec Zoo — the first giant...
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Historical panda profiles connected to this country.
Pe Pe
佩佩
51 years old
Chapultepec Zoo
Pe Pe is a male giant panda born on 1 January 1975 in the wild of Sichuan Province, China. His studbook number is 211, a...
View profileShuan Shuan
双双
39 years old
Chapultepec Zoo
Shuan Shuan (双双, "Double") was a female giant panda born at Mexico City's Chapultepec Zoo in 1987. The seventh and last ...
View profileShuang Shuang
双双
39 years old
Chapultepec Zoo
Shuang Shuang (双双, studbook #332) was a female giant panda born June 15, 1987 at Mexico City's Chapultepec Zoo — the sec...
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Further reading connected to Mexico
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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.
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Culture 📚 general
1963 Breakthrough: The First Ever Captive Panda Birth at Beijing Zoo
In 1963, at the Beijing Zoo, a female panda named Li Li gave birth to Ming Ming — the first giant panda cub ever born in captivity. This article tells the story of the historic birth, the keepers and scientists who made it possible, and how this single event launched the modern era of captive panda breeding.
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history breeding beijing
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Featured
Culture 📚 general
80 Years of Panda Diplomacy: From Wartime Gifts to Global Research Loans
Trace the transformation of giant panda diplomacy from 1941, when Soong Mei-ling gifted the first pandas to America, through the landmark 1972 Nixon-era exchange, to today's international research loan agreements that channel millions of dollars annually into wild habitat conservation. This is the untold story of how a reclusive mountain bear became the world's most powerful diplomatic animal.
2 pandas
diplomacy history panda-loan
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Nature 📚 general
Shattered Homes: Why Wildlife Corridors Are Vital for Wild Pandas
Roads, railways, and farmland have carved the giant panda's forest habitat into 33 isolated fragments. In the smallest of these fragments, with fewer than 30 pandas, inbreeding has already begun. This article explains how ecological corridors — strips of reforested land connecting isolated populations — are the single most important infrastructure investment in wild panda survival, and why the Giant Panda National Park's corridor program represents a globally significant experiment in reconnecting a fragmented species.
habitat-fragmentation corridors connectivity
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Recent activity
What the archive has recorded here
2026
Jul 1
Xin Xin's 36th birthday celebration
Mexico held a grand celebration for Xin Xin's 36th birthday with painting exhibitions, dragon and lion dances, and a special cake ceremony. Thousands of visitors lined up to see her.
Read update 2025
Jun 29
Xin Xin's 35th birthday celebration
Mexico held a week-long celebration for Xin Xin's 35th birthday, issuing 2.4 million commemorative lottery tickets.
Read update 2022
Jul 1
Shuan Shuan dies at 35, one of the world's oldest pandas
Shuan Shuan, one of the oldest giant pandas in the world, passed away at age 35 at Chapultepec Zoo, having lived more than double the typical wild lifespan.
Read update 2010
Jul 1
Shuan Shuan loaned to Guadalajara Zoo
At age 22, Shuan Shuan was temporarily loaned to Guadalajara Zoo in a breeding attempt. She returned to Chapultepec Zoo in January 2011.
Read update 1993
Nov 16
Tohui dies at Chapultepec Zoo
Tohui, the first panda born and surviving outside China, died of leptospirosis at age 12.
Read updateActivity in this country has been recorded in the archive since 1975.
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