Snow Day for Tai Shan

Tai Shan, the two-year-old giant panda cub at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park, surveyed Washington D.C.’s first major snowfall from high in a tree.

Tai Shan should feel right at home in the cold snow—giant pandas are native to central China where snow is common in the winter.

(Photo Courtesy of Jessie Cohen/Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park)

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Senior editor Beth Py-Lieberman is the author of the The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections.