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 he reached agreements with An Renyi and Yang's brother-in-law Zhu Yanshou, who then carried the title of military governor of Fengguo and was stationed at Shou Prefecture, to rise against Yang together. However, Tian's plans were hastened when Yang promoted Kang Ru to be the prefect of Lu Prefecture — which led Tian to believe that Kang had betrayed him and therefore slaughter Kang and his whole family. He then rose simultaneously with An. (Zhu was initially set to rise against Yang as well, but Yang, realizing that Zhu was in contact with Tian and An, instead, pretending to his