Xiao Qi Ji will fly back to China alongside his parents, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, by this December, when the contract between research institutions in the U.S. and China expires.
"I'm very sad; I will miss him very much," said Rachel Weidner, a tourist who came from Philadelphia to visit Xiao Qi Ji on his last birthday in the U.S.
Rachel Weidner, a tourist from Philadelphia, poses for a portrait with her panda-themed headband as she watches male giant panda Xiao Qi Ji eat an ice cake for his 3rd birthday at the Smithsonian National Zoo on Aug. 21, 2023 in Washington, DC.. "We're a bunch of scientists; we're a bunch of animal people," Zoo Director Brandie Smith told New4."This is not a political conversation. This is absolutely a conversation between colleagues talking about, what's best for the overall program, and also, what can be best for individual animals?"The two older pandas will get"a luxurious retirement," while Xiao Qi Ji might find his own mate in a place with more pandas, Smith said.
The trip may not be the most fun, and it may be"logistically challenging," Amaral said, but"we prepare them, we train them to go into their specially designed transport containers, and it should be no big deal." "Our goal is to save a species," she added."The fact that we can have giant pandas here and everybody gets to help us and enjoy it, that's just an extra bonus."
Smith is"optimistic" about pandas returning to the National Zoo, though an exact timeline isn't clear, yet.
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