Our beloved Xin Xin turns 35 this weekend and we have all been invited to celebrate with her. We tell you the details about Xin Xin’s birthday.
The date? On 📅 Sunday, June 29 at 🕘11 :00 am at 📍Centro de Conservación de la Vida Silvestre de Chapultepec and with the best attitude to celebrate the 35 years of our pampered panda.
This great birthday party will be very special, as it celebrates one more year of life of the last giant panda in Mexico. Every year there is a big celebration for his birthday. However, this 2025 there will be activities that you will not want to miss.
The invitation details that there will be workshops for the whole family, free cake and even an incredible presentation of Chinese Lions!
Xin Xin, whose name means “hope”, is one of the longest-lived lions in the world. Sedema details that pandas usually live 15 to 20 years in the wild, while only 2% reach more than 30 years.
She, besides turning 35 and exceeding by far the life expectancy, is the last panda born in Mexico, do you know her story?
Who is Xin Xin and why is she so special to Mexico?
In 1975, China gave Mexico a pair of pandas named Pe Pe and Ying Ying, who had seven offspring at the Chapultepec Zoo. One of their offspring was Tohui, the first panda to be born and survive outside of China.
Tohui was the mother of Xin Xin, and the father, Chia Chia, came to Mexico on loan from London. Until mid-2022, Chapultepec Zoo had two giant pandas: Xin Xin and Shuan Shuan, the latter daughter of Pe Pe and Ying Ying.
Sadly Shuan Shuan died on July 6, 2022 at the age of 35, making Xin Xin the last panda in the entire country.
This makes the Chapultepec Wildlife Conservation Center the only place in all of Mexico where you can see a giant panda live and in full color and the reason why Xin Xin’s birthday is such a special date!