Fifty years ago this month, giant pandas first came to Washington and changed the city forever.
The 131-year-old zoo, in Northwest Washington’s Woodley Park neighborhood, is home to three of the beloved animals: Mei Xiang, a 23-year-old female; Tian Tian, a 24-year-old male; and Xiao Qi Ji, a 1-year-old male.Two — Ling-Ling, a female; and Hsing-Hsing, a male — are deceased.
China had previously used gifts of giant pandas as overtures to countries like the Soviet Union and North Korea. They were both about 18 months old. And when they made their public debut the next weekend, 20,000 people came to see them. “New Pandas Melt Hearts,” one newspaper headline read. “And as he started developing some health issues, I got chosen to be one of the core group of keepers that was going to stay and be very panda-focused with him and his illness,” she said.At one point he wouldn’t take his arthritis medicine. The keepers had discovered that he liked the blueberry muffins from the Starbucks across Connecticut Avenue from the zoo, she said.Finally, his suffering was so apparent that zoo experts realized he should be euthanized.
Indeed, a year after Hsing-Hsing died, China sent the zoo Tian Tian, then 3, and Mei Xiang, then 2, on a 10-year, $10 million lease.
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