Er Xi
二喜
15 years old
Jinan Zoo
Er Xi is a male giant panda born on 2010-07-26 at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. He is registered un...
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Jinan Zoo
zoo Jinan, China
Jinan Zoo, located in Tianqiao District, Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, is one of the oldest comprehensive zoos in East China, with a collection of more than 300 wild animal species and over 10,000 individual specimens. It houses several IUCN Red List endangered species, including *Ailuropoda melanoleuca* (giant panda), *Trachypithecus francoisi* (Francois' langur), *Panthera tigris altaica* (Siberian tiger), and *Mylopharyngodon piceus* (Chinese sturgeon), with 12
Jinan Zoo houses giant pandas under international loan agreement with the China Conservation and Research Center, as part of the cooperative panda diplomacy and ex-situ conservation network.
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Currently at Jinan Zoo
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Recorded moments
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2011
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Further reading on Jinan Zoo
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The International Studbook: How Big Data Prevents Panda Inbreeding
Every captive giant panda on Earth is recorded in a single global database — the International Studbook — which tracks lineage, calculates genetic relatedness, and determines each year's breeding recommendations. This article explains how studbook managers use population genetics software to maintain 90% genetic diversity across 700 captive pandas, making the panda breeding program one of the most mathematically sophisticated conservation efforts in history.
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The Giant Panda Genome Project: How DNA Sequencing Transformed Conservation
In 2009, an international team led by BGI-Shenzhen published the first complete giant panda genome — a 2.4 billion base-pair blueprint that revealed why pandas lost the taste for meat, how they digest bamboo with bacterial help, and why their genetic diversity offers hope for survival. This article follows the science from Jing Jing's blood sample to today's conservation genomics, covering TAS1R1 umami pseudogenization, the Illumina sequencing revolution, and what the genome means for the species' future.
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Panda Habitat as Carbon Sink: The Hidden Climate Value of Bamboo Forests
The bamboo forests protected for pandas store an estimated 2-3 billion tons of carbon across the Giant Panda National Park's 27,000 square kilometers — an ecosystem service worth $200-750 million annually in carbon sequestration alone. This article examines how panda conservation doubles as climate action, why bamboo forests rival tropical rainforests in per-hectare carbon storage, and how China's carbon market is creating new economic incentives for habitat protection.
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Coordinates: 36.7025 N, 116.9897 E
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About Jinan Zoo
Jinan Zoo, located in Tianqiao District, Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, is one of the oldest comprehensive zoos in East China, with a collection of more than 300 wild animal species and over 10,000 individual specimens. It houses several IUCN Red List endangered species, including Ailuropoda melanoleuca (giant panda), Trachypithecus francoisi (Francois' langur), Panthera tigris altaica (Siberian tiger), and Mylopharyngodon piceus (Chinese sturgeon), with 12