Giant Pandas -- What More Could You Ask For?

(Click on the link below to watch the panda bears live.)

If anything can make the workday better, it’s got to be the National Zoo’s panda cam.

You can view two different cameras to watch D.C.’s giant pandas -- four-year-old Tai Shan, his mother, Mei Xiang, and his father, Tian Tian. Giant pandas are endangered, with only around 1,600 left in the world. They eat mainly bamboo (up to forty pounds a day!) and have lived in bamboo forests -- which are now threatened -- for millions of years.

The panda cam is definitely something to smile at -- though I do start having thoughts about science-fiction films in which future humans are the ones being observed in a zoo. Does it make it better that pandas are so much cuter?

And think about this lifestyle: pandas spend ten to sixteen hours a day eating and foraging and the rest of the time, sleeping. D.C. pandas also get enrichment.

--C.