Sweet Mei Lan 美兰, who was born at Zoo Atlanta in 2006 and has been living at the Chengdu Panda Base since 2010. Last year I saw him in the Starry Sky Pavilion, this year he was living in the No5 House, almost neighbours to Hua Hua and He Ye. The yards here are huge and full of foliage, plenty of places to hide out and enjoy bamboo where you’re not in direct view of the public. And that was very much what he was doing, it really was a quick view of him that I got! He was enjoying a pile of bamboo shoots when I saw him, tucked in behind some bushes about 8-10 meters into the yard – so he was a little hidden from view. He was pretty popular, there was a very large group of people watching him when I was there and I heard at least a couple of American accents so he definitely had some fans!