Bao Bao

Bao Bao, the National Zoo’s 4 month old panda made her first public appearance yesterday.   Bao Bao is only the second Giant Panda cub to survive since the panda program began at the National Zoo in 1972.   She is now 16.9 pounds and…

Over the last month the National Zoo had a naming contest for their panda cub.  A total of 123,000 people voted in the contest and today the results were announced, on the 100th day of the cub’s life, as is the Chinese tradition.  A month…