Bei Bei

Giant panda Bei Bei left Dulles Airport Tuesday morning on a 16-hour non-stop flight aboard FedEx’s Panda Express. News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald was at Dulles Airport as Bei Bei went bye bye.

Bei Bei, the National Zoo’s 4-year-old giant panda, left D.C. on Tuesday to move to China on Nov. 19. He was born to mom Mei Xiang and dad Tian Tian at the zoo on Aug. 22, 2015. This is what his last day in Washington D.C. looked like.

With less than a week until Bei Bei flies to China, the National Zoo is packed with visitors looking to bid the beloved panda farewell. As News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald reports Zoo staff are making sure Bei Bei parties like a rock star in his final days in the District.

While preparing giant panda Bei Bei to return to China, the National Zoo is holding a week of farewell celebrations. Aimee Cho reports.

Rogue the lesser kudu gave birth to a healthy male calf at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo on Oct. 14.

The National Zoo panda will leave D.C. in November.

The National Zoo panda cub is set to leave the District and head back to China in the coming months as part of a breeding agreement.

Bei Bei enjoyed a panda-friendly birthday cake and visitors from around the country to celebrate his fourth birthday Thursday. But it’s a bittersweet milestone, because the National Zoo favorite will have to head back to China in the near future to find a mate, per a breeding arrangement. O News4’s Megan McGrath reports.

Mei Xiang, one of the Smithsonian National Zoo’s giant pandas, was artificially inseminated on Thursday, the zoo announced.

Watch Mei Xiang and Bei Bei as they tumble and roll in the snow at the National Zoo.

The National Zoo has gifted us with another glorious video of its giant pandas rolling around in the snow like kittens enjoying catnip.

On the first snowfall of the season, Bei Bei the giant panda at the National Zoo tumbles and plays in the fresh powder.

The Smithsonian National Zoo’s beloved live panda camera was turned off on Wednesday amid the ongoing partial government shutdown. The National Zoo stayed open during the first 11 days of the shutdown, which began on Dec. 22, by tapping into unused dollars from the previous year, but closed its doors to the public on Tuesday night. The camera was shut...

Bei Bei, the National Zoo’s youngest giant panda, is celebrating his third birthday Wednesday.

Bei Bei, the National Zoo’s youngest giant panda, will celebrate his third birthday Wednesday. But the milestone also means that Bei Bei has just one year left living in the District.

We’re going to have to wait a while longer for a new bundle of panda joy.

Zookeepers, hopeful that panda Mei Xiang is pregnant, temporarily closed the panda habitat near her den at the National Zoo.