In the 1990s, China began sending pandas to foreign zoos to be bred, in the hope that future generations could be released into the wild. It hasn’t gone as planned.
Over the years, they welcomed the zoo's first-ever surviving panda cubs. Tai Shan arrived in the summer of 2005, to great excitement. He was nicknamed "Butterstick" by panda fans around D.C ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Zoo’s long dark panda drought seems to be coming to an end. Eleven months after the zoo sent its three wildly popular pandas — Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their ...