WASHINGTON — US-born panda cub Tai Shan will next week leave the National Zoo in Washington and head in grand style for a new life in China — on board a Federal Express cargo plane, officials said.
On the morning of February 4, Tai Shan will have a police escort to Dulles international airport where he will board a FedEx jet specially decked out for the occasion with a 40 foot by 40 foot (12 x 12 meter) emblem of a panda painted on either side of the cockpit.
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