🐼 Fu Bao
Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) · Shenshuping base, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Sichuan, China - born at Everland, Yongin, South Korea
Lives in Forest Hollow
Fu Bao was born in July 2020 at the Everland resort in Yongin, the first giant panda ever born in South Korea and the first there by natural breeding. She became a national fixation over 1,354 days at the park, with her keeper relationship, her tree-climbing and her sulks running constantly on Korean TV and social feeds. Under the loan agreement with China she left on 3 April 2024, a month after her last public viewing day on 3 March 2024, and now lives at the Shenshuping panda base in Sichuan. In December 2024 keepers saw her trembling while foraging and pulled her off display; she was cleared and returned to visitors in late March 2025.
What they do
Sits back on her rump, hauls a bamboo stalk up to her mouth with both front paws, chomps twice and topples slowly backwards - then rights herself and does it again..
Born a princess and has never once forgotten it: climbs the tree, refuses to come down, expects an audience.
Lore
- ★First giant panda born in South Korea, in July 2020 at Everland, and the first there produced by natural breeding.
- ★She spent 1,354 days at Everland. 3 March 2024 was the last day the public could see her and she flew to China on 3 April 2024.
- ★After she was seen trembling while foraging in December 2024 she spent over 100 days off-display; blood work and disease screens found nothing, and she went back on show in late March 2025.
Helping the real one
No verified way to support this animal exists.
We will not invent one.
She lives at a Chinese state conservation base and I could not verify any public donation route that reaches her, so this is honestly none.
Where this comes from
- The Korea Herald Everland's beloved Fu Bao returns to China ↗
- People's Daily Online Giant panda Fu Bao returns after health scare ↗
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