Shi Shi

Shi Shi was born in China around the 1970s. In 1992 he was badly injured in a fight with another adult panda, he was taken to the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center, but he couldn't go back to the wild. Then on September 1996, he was moved again to the San Diego Zoo. He was one of two pandas there, the other one was a female named Bai Yun. In 1999, Bai Yun was artificial insemination with Shi Shi sperm. Then on August 21,1999 Bai Yun gave birth to Shi Shi daugter Hua Mei. Four years later Gao Gao replace Shi Shi as Bai Yun mate. Shi Shi left for china were he spent the rest of his life, he died on July 5,2008. His daugter Hua Mei is the mother of 7 panda cubs.