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The pandas Mei Xiang, Tian Tian, and Xiao Qi Ji began their journey from the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C. to China on Wednesday. Say goodbye: Pandas leaving the National Zoo in DC ...
The National Zoo’s three giant pandas left Washington, D.C., early Wednesday and took off from Dulles on the specially-equipped FedEx Panda Express aircraft destined for Chengdu, China, their ...
The four Atlanta pandas have been the last in the United States since the National Zoo in Washington returned three pandas to China last November. Other American zoos have sent pandas back to China as loan agreements lapsed amid heightened diplomatic tensions between the two nations.
In 2024, for the first time in more than 50 years, there will be no pandas in the United States, after zoos in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., return pandas that have been on loan from Beijing.
Giant pandas are prized in Washington and around the nation and the world. The number of pandas in American zoos has dwindled as loan agreements lapsed during diplomatic tensions between the U.S ...
Mei Xiang was born on July 22, 1998, at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong, Sichuan Province; she weighs about 230 pounds. Her mother was Xue Xue and her father was Lin Nan; both parents were wild pandas. She and Tian Tian, a male, are the National Zoo's second pair of giant pandas. [1]
After 23 years of delighting visitors at the National Zoo, these pandas, who were on loan from China, are off to continue their panda adventures and contribute to the panda research and captive ...
Tuan Tuan (right) and Yuan Yuan (left) chewing on bamboo in Wolong shortly after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The exchange of the pandas was first proposed during the 2005 Pan-Blue visits to mainland China, when politicians from the then-Opposition Pan-Blue coalition, which is comparatively pro-unification in stance, visited mainland China.