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  1. 11 hours ago

    A Washington family tradition continues! Celebrate Easter Monday on 4/18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Enjoy family-focused activities, from an Easter egg hunt 🐰🥚 to special animal demos + live music. Plus, meet Panda Pal! 🐼 Reserve your free entry pass today.

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  2. 11 hours ago

    A Washington family tradition continues! Celebrate Easter Monday on 4/18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Enjoy family-focused activities, from an Easter egg hunt 🐰🥚 to special animal demos + live music. Plus, meet Panda Pal! 🐼 Reserve your free entry pass today.

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  3. Apr 16

    🐼🎂 Giant pandas Mei Xiang + Xiao Qi Ji enjoyed a fruitsicle cake to commemorate our 50th ! Together, Zoo Director Brandie Smith and Ambassador Qin Gang of the People’s Republic of China added finishing touches to the frozen treat. is sponsored by .

    Giant Panda 50th Anniversary Party
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  4. Apr 16

    Thank you for joining us to celebrate 50 years of giant panda care & conservation !

    Two pandas outdoors. They face each other, gesturing with paws.
    After First Lady Patricia Nixon mentioned she loved visiting the pandas in China, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai gifted to the American people the ’s first pandas. Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing arrived in April 1972 to great fanfare.
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  5. Apr 16

    🐼❤️ Happy ! Giant pandas are icons in Washington, D.C., and beloved around the world. They represent how international collaboration and conservation science can save species. . . . The Anniversary celebration is made possible with the support of .

    Celebrating 50 Years of Giant Pandas at Smithsonian's National Zoo
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  6. Apr 15

    Prepare your ✨BEST✨ panda flair…tomorrow’s our Pandaversary Party! 🐼🥳 Show your love for our giant panda family and shop the “50 Years of Conservation and Cuteness” collection online. 🛒SHOP + SAVE ANIMALS: . . . .

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  7. Apr 15

    🐼 Daily dose of panda joy: The one where Bao Bao broke the internet.🌨️🌐

    Bao Bao's First Snow Day
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  8. Apr 15

    The has 🐼 paw-tay details, 🎉 🎵 🎂 tips for visiting our giant panda fam & updates on "black & white" fun at the Zoo in the coming months. 🍻 And...🤩Mei Xiang on Weekend cover.

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  9. Apr 15

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    Screen print of a giant panda sitting in a stand of bamboo, eating one piece of bamboo. A red border frames the image, and the word "ENDANGERED" is written along the bottom edge.
    Celebrating 50 years of giant pandas at the with this hungry panda eating its favorite meal! Did you know the they eat 70 to 100 pounds of bamboo every day!? 🐼 Felice Regan, “Giant Panda,” 1982-1983
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  10. Apr 15

    📽️🐼 Join us for world-premiere screenings of 's “The Miracle Panda" at the Zoo on 4/16 + 4/17 about our 50-year collaboration to save giant pandas! Narrator had fun reacting to panda fam antics and joy in this video.

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  11. Apr 15

    🐼🧠 Dazzle your friends and fam with 50 panda facts to celebrate 50 years of giant pandas at the Smithsonian's National Zoo! ✏️STORY: . The Giant Panda 50th Anniversary celebration is made possible with the support of .

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  12. Apr 14

    🐼❤️ Saving giant pandas from extinction takes a team of scientists, animal care specialists and people like you! Help ensure a bright future for this and all species at the Zoo by making a tax-deductible donation: . On behalf of our animals: thank you!

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  13. Apr 14

    🐼 Daily dose of panda joy: The one where Mei Xiang has the best snow day.❄️ 🎥 This moment is brought to you by , proud sponsor of the Giant Panda Cam.

    Mei Xiang and Tian Tian in the Snow
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  14. Apr 14

    📸 Fresh giant panda dung found within a bamboo restoration plot inside Guanyinshan Nature Reserve. “Poop positive” 💩 giant panda populations have expanded into replanted areas.

    Fresh giant panda dung found within a bamboo restoration plot inside Guanyinshan Nature Reserve.
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  15. Apr 14

    📸 Dr. Mel Songer, Professor Liu Xuehua and Tsinghua University students selecting sites for bamboo restoration efforts.

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  16. Apr 14

    📸 Dr. Melissa Songer and Professor Liu Xuehua from Tsinghua University and other partners from Foping and Guanyinshan Nature Reserve at the bamboo restoration site.

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  17. Apr 14

    Smithsonian and Chinese ecologists teamed up to help wild giant pandas by planting bamboo to help expand usable habitat, resulting in the expansion of giant panda populations to the Qinling Mountains.

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  18. Apr 14

    📸 Leopard 📸 Takin 📸 Golden snub-nosed monkey 📸 Golden pheasant

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  19. Apr 14

    More than 4000 species share the giant panda’s native habitat in China. Using camera traps 📸 to collect data at 1000+ locations, our ecologists & Chinese colleagues confirmed protecting the panda helps so many magnificent animals.💚🌏 Take a journey with us!

    Leopard detected by camera trap in Guanyinshan Nature Reserve.
    Takin (Budorcas taxicolor)
    Golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana)
    Golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus)
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  20. Apr 14

    🐾 Pawsome! Thrilled to share how international collaboration & science helped save the giant panda with 🐼 Plus, Bei Bei makes the cover. 😍

    On the cover this week, a panda cub! Inside, kids can read about how the Institution is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first giant panda arriving at its ! Five decades of conservation work has contributed to pandas' survival & population growth.
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