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 or "shangdi" only 4 times. Second, Creel contrasts the disparity between 175 occurrences of "di" or "shangdi" on Shang era oracle inscriptions with "at least" 26 occurrences of "tian". Upon examining these 26 oracle scripts that scholars (like Guo Moruo) have identified as "tian" 天 "heaven; god" (1970:494–5), he rules out 8 cases in fragments where the contextual meaning is unclear. Of the remaining 18, Creel interprets 11 cases as graphic variants for "da" "great; large; big" (e.g., "tian i shang" 天邑商 for "da i shang" 大邑商 "great settlement Shang"), 3 as a place name, and 4 cases of oracles