Workers secure the Federal Express cargo plane, called the “FedEx Panda Express”, as it arrives at Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson-International Airport Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 to take Mei Lan, a 3-year-old female giant panda from Zoo Atlanta, to China. Mei Lan is Zoo Atlanta’s firstborn giant panda. Before heading to China, the plane will make a stop in Washington, D.C., where it will pick up Tai Shan, a 4-year-old male giant panda born at the National Zoo. The two giant pandas will become part of a breeding program in their endangered species’ native land. (AP Photo/Rich Addicks)
