Jinan Zoo (Chinese: 济南动物园; pinyin: Jǐnán dòngwùyuán), formerly known as Taurus Park was founded in October 1959.

[2] It is now a large scale zoo which is involved in activities such as breeding, tours, zoology, entertainment and catering.

[3] The zoo features four unique zones: animal display, entertainment, education and catering.

Valuable species originated from China include: giant panda, golden monkey, Asian elephant, takin, kiang, Thorold's deer, hoolock gibbon, Francois' leaf monkey, fox, red-crowned crane.

Jinan Zoo strives to create a natural environment between the animals and their caregivers to best simulate life as it would have been in the wild.

[4] African elephant, gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, white tigers, giraffes and zebras.

[5] A group of professionals from Jinan Zoo that specialize in zoology have successfully bred Asian elephants, golden monkeys, gibbons, langurs, takin, black stork, white stork, grey kangaroo, white-lipped deer, giraffes, seals and other species of rare animals.

On February 6, 2008, the "longevity celebrity” was suffering and died from senile hypertension, secondary to cerebral thrombosis and liver dysfunction in Jinan Zoo.

According to convention, Taotao should return to her original home – Baishuijiang National Nature Reserve in Gansu after death.

Despite this tradition her influence when she was alive was so string that she was eventually made into specimen and remained in Jinan Zoo.

If it wasn't for the zoo's walls locals say "he might even catch sheep everyday to honour his wife".