The 3rd and final yard in the Shuangnan Garden, and the last to share from my visit to the Dujiangyan Panda Base – this yard is home to Chao Tian Jiao 巢天骄 (m) and Dun Dun 顿顿 (f)! These two aren’t twins, but were born just a few days apart in 2020 at the Wolong Shenshuping Base making them almost 4 years old.

Chao Tian Jiao is sponsored by Nestle, China and his mother is Xi Dou 喜豆. There isn’t very much information about him online, however there are many sweet videos of him from throughout his life from cub to now – this pair, and also when they were with Xi Dou, are one of the features on the iPanda livecams so always an opportunity to see them. Dun Dun is also known as Dou Ban 豆伴 and she is Bao Bao‘s daughter. Bao Bao was born at the Smithsonian National Zoo, Washington DC back in 2013 and I saw her here in the Dujiangyan Panda Base in 2017, and now I’m seeing her daughter here – very special. She was raised with Chao Tian Jiao with his mother as a surrogate, so they are a pair very familiar with each other. Again, she is the feature of many online videos. I think these two both have quite distinctive looks to be able to tell them apart – in the picture below Chao Tian Jiao is the one facing the camera/front of the yard, he has particularly fluffy cheeks and fluffy ears^