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[[Image:Su Lin giant panda bear cub at the San Diego Zoo.jpg|thumb|200px|Su Lin in 2006]]
'''Su Lin''' ({{zh|s=苏琳}}) is a female [[giant panda]] born at the [[San Diego Zoo]] on August 2, 2005.  Her name — one of five options in an online poll — means "a little bit of something very cute" in Chinese.<ref>{{cite tweet |user=sandiegozoo |number=1138529692284215298 |date=June 11, 2019 |title= Su Lin was a laid-back panda cub. Her name means "a little bit of something very cute," & she certainly lived up to it. }}</ref><ref>"A little bit" may also be translated as [[wikt:小|小]], a homonym of [[wikt:苏|苏]], which actually means "resurrect" or "revive".{{clarify | reason = Very confusing. Does 苏琳 mean 'a little bit of something very cute' or not?|date=July 2013}}</ref>
Su Lin is the third cub born to her mother [[Bai Yun]], and the second to her sire [[Gao Gao]]. Su Lin has one half-sister, through Bai Yun, [[Hua Mei]]. Like her full siblings [[Mei Sheng]], [[Zhen Zhen]], [[Yun Zi]], and [[Xiao Liwu]], she was conceived via natural mating.
Su Lin made her public debut in early December, 2005, and was weaned in early 2007.
Su Lin and her sister Zhen Zhen were sent to [[Bifengxia Panda Base]] in China on September 24, 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=Make Us Proud, Su and Zhen!|url=http://blogs.sandiegozoo.org/blog/2010/09/25/make-us-proud-su-and-zhen/|publisher=San Diego Zoo|date=Sep 25, 2010|access-date=September 27, 2010|archive-date=July 7, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707082354/http://blogs.sandiegozoo.org/blog/2010/09/25/make-us-proud-su-and-zhen/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Good luck to Su Lin and Zhen Zhen|url=http://www.pandasliveon.com/giantpandas/2010/09/good-luck-to-su-lin-zhen-zhen-on-your-move-to-china.html|publisher=Pandas Live On|date=Sep 25, 2010}}</ref>
In March 2011, Su Lin successfully bred with a male giant panda.  Shortly after, she was transferred to Hetaoping, where she delivered her first cubs, a male, and a stillborn cub on July 7 in a semi-wild environment. Later she and her cub were returned to Bifengxia, where they lived in a semi-wild situation at an area named New Leopard Mountain.<ref>{{cite web|title=Su Lin gives birth at Hetaoping|url=http://www.giantpandazoo.com/panda/http:/www.giantpandazoo.com/panda-zoo-news/su-lin-gives-birth|publisher=www.giantpandazoo.com|date=July 7, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Su Lin's cub is a boy|url=http://www.giantpandazoo.com/panda/http:/www.giantpandazoo.com/panda-zoo-news/su-lins-cub-is-a-boy|publisher=www.giantpandazoo.com|date=July 8, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Su Lin Gives Birth!|url=http://blogs.sandiegozoo.org/2011/07/09/su-lin-gives-birth/|publisher=San Diego Zoo|date=July 9, 2011|access-date=July 21, 2011|archive-date=July 13, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713002811/http://blogs.sandiegozoo.org/2011/07/09/su-lin-gives-birth/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Su Lin's son was named [[Yun Hui]]; he lived with two females who were also born in 2012. Yun Hui died in January 2015, two months from his fourth birthday.
==See also==
* [[List of giant pandas]]
* [[List of individual bears]]
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandacam/index.html San Diego Giant Panda Research Center]
* [http://www.pandafix.com Panda Fix] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012170540/http://www.pandafix.com/ |date=2018-10-12 }}
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