2022-10-04 Xiao Qi Ji ~ A Fierce Fighter, a Total Goofball, & Still Mei's Baby Boy ♫♪♫•* *•♫♪♫

#PandaStory: Xiao Qi Ji and Mei Xiang are pure joy to watch, still together 25+ months later, playing, eating, and nursing! And whoever donated the teepee and hammock structure should be very pleased with how much use it still gets after all these years! Qi Ji has been spending a lot of time playing on the structures the last couple of drizzly, coolish days. And this morning the keepers once again challenged Qi Ji to get a treat feeder out of the pine tree ... mission accomplished!

While most of the footage is from yesterday (because the nursing scene had audio!), the play bout was from today ... and it involved a whole lot of tumbling and rumbling between mother and ginormous cub ... you have to really concentrate to figure out who is pushing and who is rolling! Afterward Qi Ji cooled his hind paws off in room 3's pool :)

Then we see Tian Tian who is using the hammock in room 1 more and more. Now that the weather has turned cool, the keepers are putting hay in the nesting circles as well as Tian's hammock, which he thinks makes a divine place to nap.

Yesterday Qi Ji entertained himself climbing trees, rolling down the hill after dismounting the structure, and sliding down the tree branch ... twice, after which he again rolled down the hill, grabbing a stick along the way to accompany him! After his midafternoon nap, he found Mei in the bedroom and vocalized his desire to nurse ... and he had a lengthy nursing session, singing his nursing song during part of it!

Note from Doxie: I respectively ask that you do not post comments disparaging the Smithsonian's National Zoo's treatment of their Giant Pandas, or Mei Xiang's parenting of Xiao Qi Ji, or any comparisons to other Zoos. Comments pertaining to anything other than the video content will be removed. Also, a reminder that I am not employed by or affiliated with the Smithsonian's National Zoo. Thank you for your cooperation in keeping this a place of positivity, celebration and joy!

All video footage recorded by me from the Smithsonian's National Zoo's Panda Cam public website: https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/panda-cam
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