Next up in the Inner Ring House 3 is another mother+cub pairing – the mother is Jin Shan 金山 and she is living with her little 2023-born cub. Now I didn’t see much at all of Jin Shan, mostly through the round door into the indoor space – she was keeping cool and enjoying the bamboo inside. Her cub on the other hand was very content to be outside and showing off it’s climbing skills to everyone! I stopped by here 2 or 3 times and the cub was outside playing and loving life up the trees – as soon as they climbed down from one tree, they’d moved over to the next and scaled that too^ So so adorable and such a photogenic baby. It was so quiet in this area in the afternoon, so there were only a couple of other people viewing at the time I was, which seems so unreal and such a special moment, almost a private panda cub viewing!

Mother Jin Shan was born in 2017, making her almost 7 years old, so it’s likely this is her first experience of motherhood. There’s almost no information on her online, just that her mother is Su Shan 苏珊 who has had many cubs so Jin Shan has a number of siblings. I also found a cute YouTube playlist of videos of Jin Shan and her cub which was very sweet, but otherwise, there’s not much out there – hopefully I’m adding to the collection with these photos!