The three giant pandas that have called Washington, D.C., home will soon be sent back to China, the Smithsonian's National Zoo announced earlier in August.
visit to China, first lady Patricia Nixon told Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai that she had quite liked the pandas she had seen at the Beijing zoo, said the National Archives' website. Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling died in the '90s, said the National Archives. They had no surviving offspring.
Tian Tian, pictured here, will be leaving Washington, D.C., this December after living at the National Zoo for 23 years., located in the province of Sichuan. In January 2011, the National Zoo and the China Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda signed the"Giant Panda Cooperative Research and Breeding Agreement," said the zoo's website.
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