The zoo's exchange agreement with the Chinese government, originally brokered by President Richard Nixon 50 years ago, expires on Dec. 7.
The National Zoo's three celebrity giant pandas will be heading home a little earlier than expected. Zoo officials told The Associated Press on Thursday that adult bears Mei Xiang and Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji will be returning to China sometime in mid-November.
It's our intention to have giant pandas at the Zoo again and continue our research here and conservation work in China.'The bears have been a wildly popular attraction and an unofficial symbol of the nation's capital for decades. Every birthday and anniversary was an occasion for public celebration and the long-shot birth of Xiao Qi Ji in the midst of the pandemic in August 2020 drove millions of viewers to the zoo's panda-cam.
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