Lin Bing
female giant panda
Lin Bing (Thai: หลินปิง, Chinese: 林冰, lit. 'Cold Forest'; born 27 May 2009), also known as Lin Ping, is a female giant panda born at Chiang Mai Zoo in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She was the first giant panda born in Thailand, conceived through gamete intrafallopian transfer to Chuang Chuang and Lin Hui after her father was shown panda mating videos, which proved ineffective.
Lin Bing's birth received significant media coverage in Thailand and improved tourism at Chiang Mai Zoo. Lin Bing was sent back to China in 2013, as she and her parents are considered Chinese property. She mated with numerous pandas in Sichuan, and, as of 2020, she has seven offspring.
Life
Lin Bing was born on 27 May 2009 to Chuang Chuang (6 August 2000 – 16 September 2019) and Lin Hui (28 September 2001 – 19 April 2023) while her parents were on loan to Chiang Mai Zoo in Chiang Mai, Thailand, as part of a ten-year effort to build relations between China and Thailand, which started in 2003. Prior to her birth, her father was shown panda mating videos, but he was not sexually aroused, so her mother was artificially inseminated in April 2007. Her name, meaning "Cold Forest" in Chinese, was selected through a nationwide naming contest with over 21 million votes and 500 thousand entries. The first giant panda born in Thailand, Lin Bing's birth significantly boosted tourism at Chiang Mai Zoo, and she was featured on the front pages of Thai newspapers almost daily. A 4 by 5 feet (1.2 m × 1.5 m) cake was donated to the zoo a month after she was born, and a reality show titled Lin Bing: The Reality, which later became the Panda Channel, broadcast her and her parents' lives.
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