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The pandas made the 8,250-mile journey from China, arriving at the Zoo around 11:30 a.m. after a nearly 19-hour trans-Pacific flight aboard a dedicated “FedEx Panda Express” aircraft.

The zoo was briefly panda-less, after two pandas left in 2023. Last October, a FedEx “Panda Express” brought Qing Bao and Bao Li to Washington, D.C., for a 10-year term. “I’ve always known ...