Red Panda On January 18 th the National Zoo will present the new little panda cub, named Bao Bao , to the public. However if you’re a FONZ (Friends of the National Zoo) you got to see the baby panda a week earlier. So I went early this morning to see the panda. They routed people through the top of the Asia Trail to meter the crowds and then only let groups of about 20 people into panda house for 7 minute viewing intervals. We only had to wait about 15 minutes to see the panda. While waiting in line we enjoyed the antics of the two red pandas. When we finally made it into the panda house the baby panda was awake and feeding. However, I didn’t get as nice a view or picture as I wanted. The problem was they did not completely clear out the viewing area before letting more people in. Thus some people were not obeying the rules and leaving when their group’s session was up, basically hogging the panda. There was one guy who just wou...
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