WASHINGTON: Two giant pandas arrived at the Washington zoo on Tuesday (Oct 14) in the latest chapter in China's campaign of international "panda diplomacy".Bao Li, a male panda, and Qing Bao, a femalemango win, were flown from Chengdu to Dulles airport in Virginia aboard a FedEx Boeing 777F cargo plane dubbed the "Panda Express," the Smithsonian National Zoo said.The three-year-old bears were then loaded on to trucks and taken to their new home at the zoo in the US capital."Bao Li and Qing Bao exited their crates and began exploring their new indoor enclosures, in which keepers placed ample bamboo for the bears to eatmango win," a zoo statement said.It said they will be quarantined for at least 30 days and will not go on public display until Jan 24, 2025.
In this image taken from video and released by China's National Forestry and Grassland Administration, male giant panda Bao Li is prepared for transport from the Dujiangyan Base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in southwestern China's Sichuan province on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (Jin Tao/China's National Forestry and Grassland Administration via AP)