A new pad for pandas.
Tai Shan Tai Shan can refer to: - Tai Shan (panda), a cub born July 2005 to captive giant pandas at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. The cub is also sometimes known by his nickname Butterstick.
, the giant panda panda, name for two nocturnal Asian mammals of the order Carnivora: the red panda, Ailurus fulgens, and the giant panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca.
cub at left, is about to get a new home. On September 20, 14-month-old Tai Shan and his parents will move from their current home at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., to that zoo's new Asia Trail area. The expanded habitat [place where animals live and grow] aims to prevent the extinction of giant pandas.
Today, hunting and climate change are threatening the survival of giant pandas. Fewer than 1,600 remain in the wild, all of them in China. The zoo's giant pandas will share their new home with six other endangered en·dan·ger
tr.v. en·dan·gered, en·dan·ger·ing, en·dan·gers
1. To expose to harm or danger; imperil.
2. To threaten with extinction. or threatened Asian species, including red pandas, clouded leopards clouded leopard
see clouded leopard. , and Japanese salamanders. Tai Shan will have plenty of company in his new pad!
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