Today, I will tell you the story of the reunion of the giant pandas in Taiwan.
In May 2005, a pair of giant pandas were decided to be donated to Taiwan, and then the selection work was carried out in Wolong, Sichuan.
At that time, the selection criteria were, first of all, it could not be a close relative, because the panda in Taiwan was such a male and female, and it was necessary to get married and have children, so it absolutely could not be a close relative. Second, the age should be roughly the same, and the age gap should not be too large, so the birth year of the panda at that time was stipulated to be from 2000 to 2004. There is also a high appearance, healthy and lively, and there can be no bad habits.
After repeated selection, 32 pandas were selected, the male panda tuantuan was born on September 1, 2004, and the female panda Yuanyuan was born on August 30, 2004. That is to say, this is a sister-brother love.
The great-grandfather of the old tuan tuan is the famous Pan Pan, who has 107 descendants, one of whom is The Tuan Tuan's grandmother Bai Yun. The Tuan tuan family is a big family, and the daughter-in-law of the tuan tuan cannot come from the Pan Pan family, looking around, and finally finding Yuanyuan.
At that time, Taiwan was ruled by Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party, and they were very afraid that the pandas would go to Taiwan and create all kinds of obstacles. In this way, it was not until 2008, after Ma Ying-jeou began to take power, that on December 23, 2008, the reunion of the two arrived in Taiwan on a special plane from Taiwan's EVA Airways and stayed at the Taipei Zoo.
On December 23, 2008, after they arrived in Taiwan, the bamboo they ate was divided into two parts, one part was the "hometown dish" shipped with the "panda plane" - Sichuan water bamboo and black bamboo, and the other part was Taiwanese arrow bamboo, and the two of them seemed to like the three kinds of bamboo, and also liked the bamboo powder nest prepared for them by Taipei Zoo.
Seeing that the reunion reunion was very comfortable with Taiwan's new home, the people of Taiwan finally breathed a sigh of relief, because in 2006, Taiwan's Lianhe Pao once did a poll, and the results showed that 47% of the people were worried that Taiwan's climate and living conditions were not suitable for pandas. Now it seems that the couple is quite well adapted.
Of course, adapted, Taiwan hopes that they can give birth to noble children early, in 2008 they went to Taiwan, in 2011 began to arrange for them to have children, Taipei Zoo closed for four days, let them concentrate on having children, I don't know if it is an arranged marriage is not happy, the wife round over and over again called the old husband group, the old husband group is not calling, has been covering their heads to eat, and finally the zoo only had artificial insemination, but that time did not succeed.
In 2013, the first crystallization of love "Yuanzi" of "Tuantuan" and "Yuanyuan" was successfully born. Everyone hopes that the couple can continue to work hard and have a few more love crystals. In 2015, when the estrus period was in full swing, The circle was ready, but the tuanyuan had not been serious, and when it saw the food, it left the yuanyuan to grab the food, and the circle slapped the tuanyuan in one breath.
After another five years, with the efforts of all parties, in February 2020, Taipei Zoo successfully artificially inseminated Yuanyuan, and in June, Yuanyuan gave birth to her second child. What is the name of the second, Taipei Zoo launched an online vote, there are two popular names, one is called Yuanbao, one is called Rourou, in the end, Yuanbao got 8,712 votes, Rourou got 5,223 votes, and the second was determined to be called Yuanbao.
The second child was born, Taipei Zoo still wants to continue to work hard to give birth to the third child, but Yuanyuan is already 18 years old this year, and the most suitable age for giant pandas to have children is 6-18 years old, and time is not much, but experts say that this is not necessarily true, such as in 2012, 20-year-old giant panda Lili gave birth to the Olympic giant panda Oreo .
There is also a more urgent problem, that is, the eldest daughter Yuanzai was born in 2013, 9 years old this year, and has also reached the age to talk about marriage, the problem is that Taiwan now has four pandas, in addition to Yuanzai's parents, it is Yuanzai's newborn sister Yuanbao, so next, how to help Yuanzai find a boyfriend has become the focus of this year's panda breeders.