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, Bao Bao.
Two pandas are expected to arrive Oct. 15 in Washington, D.C., where they will live for the next 10 years, becoming the first panda bears to be sent to Washington from China in 24 years, as part of a ...