Coverage dated October 13, 2024 to October 15, 2024
Pandas from China return to Washington, D.C., after beloved animals left National Zoo last year
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A pair of giant pandas arrived at the National Zoo less than a year after the Washington zoo sent Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji back to China.
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Two giant pandas are on their way from China to Washington’s National Zoo, kicking off a much-awaited return of the beloved bears to the American capital.
Two new giant pandas are reportedly en route to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. “Something *giant* is coming to Washington, D.C. via the @FedEx Panda Express!” the zoo said in a post on social media platform X on Monday. “The Zoo will be closed to the public tomorrow, Oct. 15.
A pair of giant pandas arrived at the National Zoo less than a year after the Washington zoo sent Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji back to China.
A pair of giant pandas left China on Monday for the National Zoo, taking up residence in the nation’s capital weeks before the U.S. presidential election.
This is not a drill: Two giant pandas are on their way to the National Zoo, CNN reports. Bao Li and Qing Bao are set to board the Panda Express within the next few hours, flying from China to their new home in DC. The three-year-old bears departed a research base in Dujiangyan on Monday
After an 11-month wait, giant pandas will populate the zoo once again. A pair of pandas, which left China on FedEx's "Panda Express" cargo jet, are expected to arrive in the D.C. area on Tuesday.
A pair of 2-year-old giant pandas are set to arrive at the National Zoo. The male panda, Bao Li, is the offspring of Bao Bao, who was born in D.C. in 2013
Two new giant pandas from China have arrived at the Smithsonian National Zoo Tuesday, nearly a year after the D.C. zoo’s exhibit was devastatingly vacated.
Eleven months after the zoo said sent its three wildly popular pandas — Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji — back to China, a new pair of bears is set to arrive at D.C.’s National Zoo.
Two giant pandas arrived at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday after a flight from China, officials said. “After months of planning and preparation, giant pandas Bao Li [BOW-lee] and Qing Bao [ching-BOW] arrived at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI…
Two giant pandas are expected to arrive in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, continuing a decades-old culture exchange between China and the United States.
The National Zoo's newest breeding pair of 3-year-old pandas -- male Bao Li and female Qing Bao -- landed Tuesday morning at Washington Dulles International Airport.
