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Visitors look at the American-born panda Tai Shan at the Ya’an Bifeng Gorge Breeding Base in Sichuan province, China, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Freed from quarantine, Tai Shan paced around his new home in southwest China as he was put on public display Tuesday for the first time since his much-anticipated arrival in the country. (AP Photo)
Visitors look at the American-born panda Tai Shan at the Ya’an Bifeng Gorge Breeding Base in Sichuan province, China, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Freed from quarantine, Tai Shan paced around his new home in southwest China as he was put on public display Tuesday for the first time since his much-anticipated arrival in the country. (AP Photo)
In this Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010 photo released by the Xinhua news agency, American-born panda Tai Shan eats bamboo in Wolong Nature Reserve in southwest China’s Sichuan province. Tai Shan, Xinhua said, is adapting well to life in his new home in southwest China’s Sichuan province after returning to China. The panda will begin to receive visitors on March 5 after one-month quarantine. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Chen Xie)
In this photo provided by the San Diego Zoo, the giant panda cub Yun Zi, 6 months old, climbs an elm tree on Tuesday Feb. 16, 2010 in San Diego. (AP Photo/San Diego Zoo, Ken Bohn)
In this Jan. 28, 2010 file photo, panda cubs from the Wolong Giant Panda Reserve Center in Sichuan are seen at a Shanghai zoo in China. Japanese panda fans will be able to see the endangered animals in Tokyo next year for the first time since 2008, after the city reached an agreement to pay nearly $1 million a year to borrow a pair from China, officials said Friday, Feb. 12. Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo has been without a giant panda for the first time since 1972, when a pair arrived to mark the signing of a peace treaty between Japan and China. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
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)
Panda Tai Shan, 4, is seen on his last day at the National Zoo in Washington, on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Tai Shan, who was born at the zoo in 2005, will be sent to China on Thursday to become part of a breeding program. Under the Smithsonian’s panda loan agreement, any cub born at the zoo must be returned to China for breeding. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Mei Xiang, mother of 4-year-old panda Tai Shan, rolls herself down a snowy hill on Tai Shan’s last day at the National Zoo in Washington, on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Tai Shan, who was born at the zoo in 2005, will be sent to China on Thursday to become part of a breeding program. Under the Smithsonian’s panda loan agreement, any cub born at the zoo must be returned to China for breeding. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
In this Aug. 27, 2007 file photo, Mei Lan, the only giant panda cub to be born in a U.S. zoo in 2006 is shown at Zoo Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia. Chinese zookeepers are advertising for a tutor to teach Chinese to the American-born giant panda arriving this week in her parents’ homeland. The language lessons, a special diet and even blind dates are also part of the red-carpet welcome being rolled out for 3-year-old Mei Lan, or Beautiful Orchid, by Chinese caretakers ahead of her arrival Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe, File)
A panda caretaker catches a panda to be sent from Sichuan to Shanghai for the World Expo, at the Bifengxia Panda Base in Ya’an, in southwest China’s Sichuan province, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010. Ten giant panda cubs, all born after the deadly earthquake that hit Sichuan province in 2008, were on their way Tuesday to Shanghai to go on display for this year’s World Expo, a spokeswoman for the Shanghai Zoo said. (AP Photo)
In this photo provided by the San Diego Zoo, veterinarian Tracy Clippinger, right, is assisted by Kathy Hawk, a senior keeper, in order to listen to the heartbeat of Yun Zi, a 17-week-old giant panda cub, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009 in San Diego. The 15.9-pound cub was more interested in walking rather than sitting still during his routine health exam on Thursday. Although the cub is taking baby steps, he is not yet venturing into the outdoors. During this denning period, the only way to see the cub is through the San Diego Zoo’s live Panda Cam. (AP Photo/San Diego Zoo, Ken Bohn)
In this photograph provided by the National Zoo, Tai Shan, the National Zoos giant panda cub, plays in a tree at his home at the zoo in this June 9, 2006 file photo. The National Zoo’s beloved giant panda cub, Tai Shan, will soon be heading to China. Zoo spokeswoman Karin Korpowski-Gallo says officials will announce Friday morning Dec. 4, 2009 that Tai Shan will be leaving the Smithsonian Institution park in Washington. Under the Smithsonian’s panda loan agreement, any cub born at the zoo must be returned to China for breeding. (AP Photo/Smithsonian Institution, Ann Batdorf, File)
In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, an 18-month old panda bear is trained to walk on its hind legs to build strength ahead of the crucial mating season at a wild animal rescue and research center in Zhouzhi county in northwestern China’s Shaanxi province. (AP Photo)
In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, an 18-month old panda bear is trained to walk on its hind legs to build strength ahead of the crucial mating season at a wild animal rescue and research center in Zhouzhi county in northwestern China’s Shaanxi province. (AP Photo)
