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 大 as "a large or great man". The Zhou subsequently added a head on him to denote "tian" 天 meaning "king, kings" (cf. "wang" "king; ruler", which had oracle graphs picturing a line under a "great person" and bronze graphs that added the top line). From "kings", "tian" was semantically extended to mean "dead kings; ancestral kings", who controlled "fate; providence", and ultimately a single omnipotent deity "Tian" "Heaven". In addition, "tian" named both "the heavens" (where ancestral kings and gods supposedly lived) and the visible "sky". Another possibility is that "Tian" may be related to "Tengri" and possibly was