Tai Shan (Chinese: 泰山; pinyin: Tài Shān, pronounced ), also known as Butterstick) is a giant panda born at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park (National Zoo) in Washington, D.C on July ...

Read more at http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2009/12/tai-shan-will-return-to-china/ Visitors to the National Zoo have enjoyed watching their baby panda ...

Tai Shan arrived in the summer of 2005 ... Then 22, Mei Xiang was the second-oldest giant panda in the world documented to give birth. The panda program has always served as a gesture of ...