Panda Forest.
中文
Menu
Skip to life facts
On this page

MEET / 676An individual life

Ershun

二顺

Life status
Living
Born

Ershun was born at Chongqing Zoo on August 10, 2007. In 2013, she went to Canada with Damao and later lived at both the Toronto Zoo and the Calgary Zoo. In 2015, Ershun gave birth to Jia Panpan and Jia Yueyue in Toronto, the first giant panda cubs successfully born in Canada. After returning to China in 2020, she gave birth to another pair of twins in Chongqing in 2022.

Read the storyMeet the family
Sex
Female
Studbook number
676
Current place
Chongqing Zoo

No photograph is available yet.

Timeline

7 recorded events

  1. Born at Chongqing Zoo

    Ershun was born at Chongqing Zoo on August 10, 2007.

    Chongqing Zoo

  2. Arrived at the Toronto Zoo with Damao

    Ershun arrived at the Toronto Zoo with Damao on March 25, 2013, beginning a China–Canada giant panda conservation and breeding partnership.

    Toronto Zoo

  3. Gave birth to Canada’s first giant panda cubs

    Ershun gave birth to twins at the Toronto Zoo on October 13, 2015. They became the first giant panda cubs successfully born in Canada and were later named Jia Panpan and Jia Yueyue.

    Toronto Zoo

  4. Moved from Toronto to the Calgary Zoo with Damao and the twins

    Ershun moved from the Toronto Zoo to the Calgary Zoo with Damao, Jia Panpan and Jia Yueyue on March 23, 2018.

    Calgary Zoo

  5. Returned to China with Damao

    Ershun returned to China with Damao on November 29, 2020. After arriving in Chengdu, she was sent to Chongqing for quarantine.

    Chongqing

  6. Year only

    Mated naturally with Qingqing

    Ershun mated naturally with Qingqing at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in March 2022 and then returned to Chongqing Zoo.

    China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda

    cgj.cq.gov.cncgj.cq.gov.cn

  7. Gave birth to twins Yuke and Yuai

    Ershun gave birth to twins at Chongqing Zoo on July 22, 2022; they were later named Yuke and Yuai.

    Chongqing Zoo

Relationships

Mother

Father

Siblings29View all

Offspring4

Family treeCheck kinship

Places

Current place

Chongqing Zoo

Read more about its time in different places in the Timeline.

Sources

These are sources related to this panda. Sources for individual events appear in the timeline; one source does not establish every detail.

  1. cgj.cq.gov.cn

    Event source

    https://cgj.cq.gov.cn/zwxx_173/bmdt/csgldt/js/202204/t20220418_10631604.html
  2. cgj.cq.gov.cn

    Event source

    https://cgj.cq.gov.cn/zwxx_173/bmdt/mtkd/202208/t20220808_10983776.html
How we use sources
Back to pandasBack to life facts