After five months of anticipation and 6,000 miles in the air, D.C.'s nearly year-long panda drought ended Tuesday with the arrival of two new cubs from China in
After five months of anticipation and thousands of miles in the air, D.C. 's nearly year-long panda drought ended Tuesday morning with the arrival of two new cubs from China to Dulles International Airport. Bao Li and Qing Bao , and their support staff took flight from Dujiangyan, China Monday afternoon, stopping in Anchorage, Alaska before once again taking off in a FedEx charter plane overnight, per video obtained by CNN.
Citing safety reasons, Smithsonian National Zoo officials have remained mostly silent on details of the pandas' arrival but announced the Zoo's closure before their expected arrival. Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng celebrated their departure from China in a post on X Monday afternoon. At Dulles International Airport, several FedEx trucks with the pandas' faces plastered on them were seen along a nearby loading dock. At the National Zoo, a 7News camera saw crews removing banners teasing the pandas' arrival in front of the Zoo's Connecticut Avenue entrance.Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and Xiao Qi Ji departing on Nov. 8, 2023, to China per an agreement between researchers in China and the U.S.
But fans will need to wait longer to see the pandas, they will need to be quarantined for up to 30 days. Following their departure, Zoo officials began remodeling the giant pandas's enclosure, and officials received $10 million from local
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