2021-01-01 Xiao Qi Shuts the Door on 2020!

LOL, not really, although he did play with the den door for quite awhile yesterday. This video starts around 9:15am on 12-31-2020 with Xiao Qi Ji barking at his mother when she went to check on him (and discovered the newly planted treat ball with strap). Around 12:30pm he found a piece of bamboo that pleased him, and even used his pseudo thumb to hold on to it! The den door caught his attention (there is an attraction between Giant Panda cubs and doors & doorways), but not the treat ball. Just after 4pm Mei Xiang bleats before she enters the den, gives Xiao Qi Ji a quick bath, and leaves ... with Qi Ji hot on her heels. She begins to eat bamboo just outside the den door, and Qi Ji does his adorable pest routine. Mei relents and they play awhile (most of it sadly just out of camera view). After one last lap around the den, Qi Ji follows Mei Xiang ... and except for a couple of brief appearances in room 2, we don't see Qi Ji again until the next year!

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Video recorded at Smithsonian's National Zoo's Panda Cam website: https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/panda-cam
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