The nation’s capital is abuzz with gossip of its new celebrity couple: Who is being invited to the welcome parties? Which reporters get exclusives? Does the duo still spend all night in wrestling bouts that scatter dirt and uproot plants around their new home?
Washington’s new celebrity couple. National Zoological ParkLess than a month old, San Diego Zoo’s Hua Mei has a long way to grow. San Diego ZooSchematic view of bones in a panda hand as it grasps. Nature
Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, like the newcomer pair on a different avenue, are settling into a historic federal location in town. However, nobody had to go to court or recount votes to decide that the young female and male pandas on a 10-year loan from China are welcome inside the beltway.
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