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Two New Giant Pandas Debut at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Excerpt:  “Giant pandas Bao Li [BOW-lee] and Qing Bao [ching-BOW] made their public debut at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Washington, D.C., Jan. 24. In a ceremonial opening of the Asia Trail exhibit, Brandie Smith, the John and Adrienne Mars Director of NZCBI, welcomed the American public to meet the new bears, declaring the Zoo to be the ‘District of Panda.’”

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Male giant panda Bao Li in his habitat at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. (Credit: Roshan Patel)