The National Zoo won't release pictures of the panda cub that died this morning, but according to chief veterinarian Suzan Kelly, the panda looked healthy.
"The cub looked just fabulous," Murray said at a press conference this afternoon with Dennis Kelly, the zoo's director. Murray and Kelly kept returning to two themes: how beautiful the panda [...]
Update, 2:34 p.m: Zoo officials have provided more information about the panda's death, including when it made its last noises and the future of the panda program at the zoo.
–
The panda cub born last week at the National Zoo died this morning at less than seven days old, according to a press release from the [...]
Bear Bits: The National Zoo has released a video of the new panda being born, which is pretty messed up if you ask me.-1
Student Gets Sneaky?: Foggy Bottom ANC Commissioner David Lehrman says George Washington University student Patrick Kennedy befriended him as part of a scheme to eventually run for his seat. To make things [...]
A morning roundup of news, opinion, and links from Washington City Paper and around the District. Send tips and ideas to citydesk@washingtoncitypaper.com.
Sign up: To get District Line Daily—or any of our other email newsletters—sent straight to your mailbox, click here.
Panda panda panda. Panda.
LEADING THE MORNING NEWS:
Councilmember Michael Brown's driver's license suspended five times [...]
A morning roundup of news, opinion, and links from Washington City Paper and around the District. Send tips and ideas to citydesk@washingtoncitypaper.com.
Sign up: To get District Line Daily—or any of our other email newsletters—sent straight to your mailbox, click here.
For this week's cover, Darrow Montgomery used his phone to capture Washingtonians on their phones.
LEADING [...]
Have the National Zoo's hapless pandas finally—with massive scientific intervention—made another baby panda? After an ultrasound this morning, the answer is still maybe. Or maybe not!
"There is definite uterine enlargement as we would expect to see with pregnancy" tweets the National Zoo, "or pseudo pregnancy."
Drat! But just telling you that Mei Xiang could still be [...]
Like Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, National Zoo pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian are a famous couple that just won't have sex, no matter how much—in this case, a $4.5 million panda reproduction fund—depends on it.
But now comes the new that hormones in Mei Xiang's urine suggest that she's pregnant, though Washington's been misled [...]
As promised, the National Zoo has named its three-month old cheetah cubs after the fastest American man and woman who competed in the 100-meter dash at the Olympics this weekend. The cheetahs are now named Carmelita and Justin, after runners Carmelita Jeter and Justin Gatlin.
Congratulations to the cheetahs for finally getting names, but, as with [...]
Underachievers: The District's new grade.dc.gov department grades are out, and the four graded departments passed, but just barely. Using a system that combines reviews and comments on social media and in blogs, D.C. rated the Department of Public Works a C+ in June—and it was the top-scoring department. The Department of Transportation, the Department of [...]
Ever wondered what a giant panda AI is like? Find out today! We will live-tweet Mei Xiang's AI at 4 p.m. s.si.edu/aBZ4T #pandaAI
— National Zoo (@NationalZoo) April 30, 2012
No, I can't say that I have ever wondered what a giant panda artificial insemination is like. Because I think pandas are terrible. Last year, after another [...]
You're Not From Here, Are You?: Less than a year after the U.S. Census Bureau shocked everyone in the District with the news that the city's population had grown, by nearly 30,000 people, for the first time in 50 years, a new report came out today showing that no state (or "equivalent," as the District [...]
Pandas are the worst. They're lazy, they won't have sex with each other (unless they're related), they fake pregnancies, and when they do manage to get pregnant, they almost always let one of the babies die.
But whatever! The National Zoo is celebrating a $4.5 million gift from David M. Rubenstein that will fund its useless panda-breeding [...]
Thanks to the District's excessive use of social media, we've pretty much heard how every person here (or the entire East Coast) reacted to the earthquake yesterday. Thanks to the National Zoo, we now know how the animals in captivity weathered the 30 seconds of terror.
The Zoo staff released a list of some of the [...]
Leave Only Footprints: There's no telling what a burglar will do when he or she breaks into an unattended house—rummage around, take valuables, use the bathroom. That was the modus operandi of whoever broke into a home in Vienna last week. The owners came home to find the doors unlocked, nothing taken, and some shit [...]
On June 22, 1972, Hurricane Agnes dumped torrential rainfall on the region as it swept up the eastern seaboard from the Carolinas to New York, flooding the Potomac River and Rock Creek in the District.
According to a report by the National Weather Service, the rare flooding event hit D.C., Virginia, and Maryland after Agnes dumped [...]
