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• Description of Subject Matter: This section is used on this site and may include several animals: pandas and red pandas.
  Panda: Here are Tian Tian (the male) and Mei Xiang (the female). If you can't tell the difference, the male is slightly bigger (and a year older) and the black coloring on his legs only go up to his knees. The female's black coloring goes up to her thighs. Of course the pandas have their own Web site at http://pandas.si.edu/ That web site lets you read about every sordid detail of their sex life together. A cub named Tai Shan ("peaceful mountain") was born through artificial insemination in July 2005 so you'll see him periodically in pictures after that. (The original pandas that Nixon brought home from China were named Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing.)
  Red Panda: After the Zoo accidentally poisoned it's two main red pandas in an attempt to kill off rats, there was a major public outcry. A new pen was prepared and a red panda named Jiao came from Michigan's Potter Park Zoo in May 2004. The enclosure provides better viewing of the animal. Since they began studying them in 1972, the Zoo has been responsible for the birth of over 150 red pandas in its facilities.
  
  (Sign at the zoo) The original panda: For nearly 50 years, these animals were known to the western world as "pandas." Then, in 1869 a missionary discovered a black-and-white, bear-like, bamboo-eating animal with teeth strikingly similar to the panda's. This new animal was named the "giant panda," and the original panda came to be known as the "red panda." Ninety-eight percent of the red panda's diet was bamboo.
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  9. SINZP_100130_148.JPG: Tai Shan @ his farewell event.
  14. SINZP_100130_223.JPG: Tai Shan @ his farewell event.
  15. SINZP_100130_229.JPG: This was one of the crates that the original pandas came over in 1971.
  16. SINZP_100130_236.JPG: This is the father, not Tai Shan.
  44. SINZP_100130_457.JPG: Tai Shan's second "cake" didn't go over big. He had been fed earlier in the day for a donor event.
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