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Jin Xiao Wu

金小武

Jin Xiao Wu is a male giant panda born on 2022-07-21 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. He is registered under studbook number 1274 in the global giant panda breeding registry, and his birth weight and early development aligned with standard healthy giant panda cub parameters recorded at the center. He is the offspring of Jin Ke (studbook 639) and Wu Yi (studbook 640), both captive-bred giant pandas resident at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. His lineage is part of the center’s managed breeding program designed to maintain genetic diversity among captive giant pandas. Currently living at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wenchuan, Sichuan, he participates in the center’s daily captive management and species monitoring protocols. As a young subadult, he undergoes regular health screenings and behavioral observations conducted by center researchers to track his development. As a young giant panda from a genetically valuable lineage, Jin Xiao Wu contributes to the overall genetic diversity of the captive giant panda population, which supports ongoing conservation efforts for the species. Like other giant pandas at the center, he helps educate visitors about giant panda ecology and the success of decades of giant panda conservation work in China. His natural foraging and climbing behaviors align with typical species traits observed in wild and captive giant pandas.