Su Lin
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Su Lin is a female giant panda born at the San Diego Zoo on August 2, 2005. She is the third cub born to Bai Yun. Her name — one of five options in an online poll — means "a little bit of something very cute" in Chinese. Su Lin was also the name of the first panda brought to the United States from China. Bai Yun's two previous cubs were the first two giant pandas to survive past infancy in the United States (the first surviving cubs in North America were bred in the Chapultepec Zoo). The first, a female named Hua Mei, was fathered by Shi Shi via artificial insemination and was born on August 21, 1999. She returned to China in February 2004, where she has already given birth to 2 sets of twins, males in 2004 (named Hua Ling and Mei Ling) and one male/one female in 2005. Both sets of twins are doing fine to date. Bai Yun's second cub, a male named Mei Sheng, was the product of natural mating with Gao Gao and was born on August 19, 2003. Su Lin was also fathered by Gao Gao via natural mating.
