Oct 15, 2024 · Bao Li’s grandparents, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, arrived in D.C. in 2000 and lived at the National Zoo for nearly a quarter-century. Over the years, they welcomed the zoo’s first …

It originates with First Lady Patricia Nixon’s mention of her fondness for the cute creatures while at a dinner with Chinese Premier Zhou Entai in Beijing in Feb. 1972. After the historic …

Explore a detailed history and timeline of giant pandas at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Get up to speed on the program that helped move pandas off …

Bao Li's Family Tree. Bao Li's Family Tree

On November 8, the zoo’s pandas– Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their newest cub, Xiao Qi Ji– boarded a Fed-Ex plane to China. Their departure marks the end of more than 50 years of …

Nov 9, 2023 · We're saying goodbye to the giant pandas, who have been a part of DC history for 50 years. Giant pandas are leaving the National Zoo in DC this month. Here's a look back.

Bao Li has family roots in the District. He is the son of Bao Bao, a female giant panda who was born at the zoo in 2013, and the grandson of Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, the panda couple …

Oct 15, 2024 · His grandparents, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, lived at the National Zoo for nearly a quarter-century and welcomed the zoo’s first-ever surviving panda cubs, including his mother, …

Jan 16, 2025 · Panda diplomacy, as it’s been dubbed, has been in use since the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618–907), but the U.S. got its first taste of it in 1972 when President Richard Nixon and …

China’s renewed panda diplomacy with the US is a rare bright spot in the fraught relations between the world’s two superpower rivals – which have been marred by tensions over trade, …