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Zhen Zhen Jr.

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Zhen Zhen Jr. is a female giant panda born on 2022-07-15 at Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo. She is assigned studbook number 1307 and has remained in good health since her birth, with no major health incidents on official record. She is the offspring of father He Ping and mother Zhen Zhen. Both parents were transferred to Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo as part of the national giant panda captive breeding cooperation program coordinated by the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Currently living at Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo, she participates in the zoo’s captive giant panda socialization training program for juvenile individuals. The program is designed to help young pandas develop species-typical foraging and interaction skills to support potential future breeding or reintroduction efforts. Zhen Zhen Jr. exhibits a documented preference for climbing artificial tree structures in her enclosure and interacting with enrichment items made from local bamboo. She is a core feature of Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo’s public wildlife conservation education sessions, raising visitor awareness of giant panda habitat protection efforts in Sichuan’s Minshan Mountains. Her birth also marked a successful milestone in the zoo’s independent giant panda breeding research work.