Home Animals Animal News September 30, 2015 Four Pounds and Counting Related Species: Giant panda Continue Exploring July 31, 2025 Secrets of Summer Panda Life How are the new giant pandas spending their first summer? And what’s changed since they arrived nine months ago? Keeper Mariel Lally explains. May 16, 2025 The Bears and the Bleats Bleats and chirps between two giant pandas are a sure sign that flirtatious feelings are in the air! Read all about the bears and the bleats in our latest #DCPandas update. January 24, 2025 Two New Giant Pandas Debut Giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao made their public debut at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute today.