The most popular pandas in Pan Pan Garden were definitely Ji Fu 吉福 and Chun Yu 春雨! These two are super cute cubs and were so entertaining, everyone was stopping to watch them and get pictures. These two must have been a new addition either to the base or to just this enclosure because there was no signage for them at all – luckily we passed by a keeper who my friend knew and we asked what the names were. So really not much information, but they have been featured in a few videos/social media posts recently. Ji Fu is the daughter of Cui Cui, and a quick search online tells me she was born in August 2022 (so almost 2 years old on my visit), and holds the record for the heaviest cub being born in captivity at 270.4 grams! Apparently Ji Fu likes to take her bamboo up into the trees to eat, which is exactly what I saw, it was adorable. I believe I saw her mum Cui Cui on this trip but at the Wolong Shenshuping Base (content coming soon^). Chun Yu is the daughter of Qiao Qiao, and it seems like Qiao Qiao was originally a wild panda and was brought into captivity, and was then sent out to breed with wild males, and brought back in. Chun Yu is a product of that and was also born in August 2022. These two also are the focus of one of the livecams on the iPanda website, if you are lucky you will be able to spot them!

To tell these two apart – Ji Fu is the one with a little tuft on her head, and Chun Yu has a more square-shaped head (so the internet says, I didn’t just make it up^).