Three year old panda Bao Bao leaves for China

Bao Bao was born way back in August of 2013 and is part of the National Zoo’s cooperative breeding program with the China Wildlife Conservation Association. She has spent her entire life at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington D.C. and the 3-year-old is now heading for China.
The zoo will be holding a number of celebratory events leading up to her departure on Feb. 21.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 19 February 2017.

Sending the panda off to China is because of a loan agreement. The parents are in America on loan, and the loan agreement stipulates that any cub born can stay here up until they are four years old and then would have to go back to China. The cub is three and a half years old and it is the right time for her to go back.
The flight to China is of 16 hours duration and, since she loves bamboo, there will be 50 pounds of it in the flight along with sweet potatoes and apples.


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