Zoo's giant panda heads to China (video)
Posted on Thursday, February 04 @ 03:55:52 CST
Topic: Great Big World |   Tai Shan, the first surviving giant panda cub born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, will depart for China on the morning of Thursday, Feb. 4, as stipulated in the agreement between the Zoo and the Chinese government.
Under the agreement, giant panda cubs born at the National Zoo belong to China and are to be sent to the Wolong's Beifengxia Base in Ya'an, Sichuan sometime after the cub turns two.
In April 2007, shortly before his second birthday, China granted the National Zoo a two-year extension for Tai Shan to remain in Washington, D.C.; that extension expired in July but the Zoo was provided a second extension to January 2010.
Tai Shan, whose name means "peaceful mountain" in Chinese, will be trained to enter and calmly remain in a specially designed crate for his flight to China. He was born at 3:41 a.m. July 9, 2005, weighing only a few ounces at birth.
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