Bai Yun (giant panda)

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Bai Yun (Chinese: 白云; lit. 'White Cloud'; born September 7, 1991) is a female giant panda born in Wolong, China. Her mother, Dong Dong, was caught in the wild and was at the Panyu Xiangjiang Wild Animal World in Guangzhou at the time of her death in 2011. Bai Yun's father, Pan Pan, also sired 31 additional offspring. In 1999, while residing at the San Diego Zoo, Bai Yun was artificially inseminated with sperm from Shi Shi, the male panda at the zoo at the time, since the two pandas did not get along. She gave birth to her first cub on August 21, 1999, Hua Mei, who was the first giant panda born in the United States to survive to adulthood. Bai Yun was artificially inseminated three more times in March 2002 using Shi Shi's frozen sperm, and has since given birth to five other cubs: Mei Sheng (2003), Su Lin (2005), Zhen Zhen (2007), Yun Zi (2009), and Xiao Liwu (2012), all via natural mating with Gao Gao, who replaced Shi Shi as Bai Yun's mate after veterinarians determined that Shi Shi was...

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