Tian Tian (female giant panda)

Tian Tian (Chinese: 甜甜; pinyin: Tián Tián, meaning "Sweetie") is a female panda born on 24 August 2003 at the Beijing Zoo from mother Niu Niu and father Ying Ying, and a former resident at Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland.

[1] She arrived in Edinburgh in December 2011[2] together with a male panda named Yáng Guāng (Chinese: 陽光, meaning "sunshine").

[7] In April 2013 Royal Zoological Society of Scotland performed on her the first artificial insemination procedure on a giant panda in the UK.

[13] On 24 August 2017 it was revealed that Edinburgh Zoo had believed she was pregnant again after being artificially inseminated for the fifth time in 2016.

[14] The expected date for a birth was as early as 25 August 2017[14] although the Zoo said was hard to predict and the panda breeding season can last until late September.