Tian Tian (female giant panda) Tian Tian (female giant panda) Tian Tian (, meaning "Sweetie") is a female panda born on 24 August 2003 at the Beijing Zoo from mother Niu Niu and father Ying Ying, and currently resident at Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. She arrived in Edinburgh in December 2011 together with a male panda named Yáng Guāng (, meaning "sunshine"). Currently they are the only two pandas in the United Kingdom. They are on a 10-year loan from the Bifengxia Breeding Centre in China at a cost of £640,000 per year. When in China Tian Tian, successfully gave birth to twins on 7 August
Tian Jun of large ships, known as the "tower ships" (樓船), at one point allowing him to threaten Yang with attack if Yang refused to yield Run Prefecture to him. Tian planned to attack him, and therefore began to build a fleet of his own. He hired the same shipbuilders who built Feng's fleet, and when the shipbuilders pointed out that Feng used the best wood possible to build durable ships (and that Ningguo lacked such wood), Tian responded that he only planned to use his fleet once. Quickly, his fleet was built. Feng, realizing Tian's intentions, decided to act preemptively, and