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 "shangdi" and rarely used "tian" to Zhou bronzes and texts that used "tian" more frequently than its synonym "shangdi". First, Creel analyzes all the "tian" and "di" occurrences meaning "god; gods" in Western Zhou era Chinese classic texts and bronze inscriptions. The "Yi Jing" "Classic of Changes" has 2 "tian" and 1 "di"; the "Shi Jing" "Classic of Poetry" has 140 "tian" and 43 "di" or "shangdi"; and the authentic portions of the "Shu Jing" "Classic of Documents" have 116 "tian" and 25 "di" or "shangdi". His corpus of authenticated Western Zhou bronzes (1970:464–75) mention "tian" 91 times and "di"