Tian Tian (female giant panda) 2009. The male cub was named Shen Wei and the female Bo Si. After her arrival at Edinburgh Zoo she had an unsuccessful mating season in 2012. In April 2013 Royal Zoological Society of Scotland performed on her the first artificial insemination procedure on a giant panda in the UK. They later confirm that Tian Tian had become pregnant, but most likely reabsorbed the foetus late term. On 12 August 2014 Iain Valentine, Director of Giant Pandas for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, announced that a second implantation had taken place, she was pregnant and birth was expected around
Tian Dawei Tian Dawei Tian Dawei (; August 1931 – 12 June 2013) was a Chinese translator and official. He served as vice president of the National Library of China, and was an official in the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China. Tian was among the first in China who translated the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn into Chinese. Tian was born in a high educated family, in 1931, in Beijing, the son of An E (), a poet and translator, and Tian Han, a playwright who wrote the lyrics for "March of the Volunteers" in 1934. In 1936, Tian