Two giant pandas and their cub are headed from the National Zoo in Washington to China.
There’s not much time left to get this full leg massager at a discounted priceFILE - Giant panda Xiao Qi Ji plays at his enclosure at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, Sept. 28, 2023. Early Wednesday morning, Nov. 8, three large white crates containing giant pandas Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji were loaded by forklifts onto waiting trucks for the trip ro Chengdu, China. The National Zoo's three giant pandas, Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji.
They were taken to Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia, where a specially outfitted Boeing 777F dubbed the FedEx Panda Express was waiting. The 19-hour flight to Chengdu, China will include a refueling stop in Anchorage, Alaska. But there's no guarantee that pandas will return to the zoo. The zoo's exchange agreement with the China Wildlife Conservation Association expires in early December and negotiations to renew or extend the deal have not produced results.
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