Bei Bei says goodbye to the U.S. and his beloved zookeeper
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- čas přidán 11. 11. 2019
- The National Zoo’s giant panda, Bei Bei, will leave Washington, D.C., and head to China on Nov. 19. His zookeeper Laurie Thompson said there will be tears.
Bei Bei, age 4, is the last of the zoo’s three giant panda cubs to depart, and could be the last cub in Washington for a while, closing a joyous chapter in local history that began 14 years ago.
China owns and leases all giant pandas in U.S. zoos. Two of the zoo’s cubs have already been shipped to China - Tai Shan, a male, in 2010 and Bao Bao, a female, in 2017. Read more: wapo.st/2NGFEvT. Subscribe to The Washington Post on CZcams: wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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No one can be immune to Bei Bei‘s cuteness. His keeper Laurie said "he is so cute" even after caring for him everyday for four plus years. Bei Bei will be geatly missed.
yes bei bei is so cute need translator back to the origin home China
@@kimfongvoon7 me me me 🙆 I will do it.
@@kimfongvoon7 but he's a US born citizen to me😢
Seriously sad to see him go but hope he can be no longer in an enclosure in a Zoo anymore anywhere.
The sounds he makes toward the end 😍🥰 We love and miss you already Bei Bei! 😭💔
Can see how much this keeper loves him and proud of bei bei. Cute sound made by bei bei just for the keeper
Bei Bei is absolutely adorable! I will cry if I have to say goodby to him after 4 long years!😢
Bei Bei is so cute, so round, so big then with tiny squeaks he talks, indeed So Cute! 🥰 Thanks for taking good care on raising him & making him happy. I hope China will give him his treats & much loving care too & make him happy. Love you our Bei Bei 😘!!
🌸 V from San Francisco
Bei Bei is so adorable .Panda's are my favorite animal .
Aw they are so Amazing ❤️ love pandas.. I hope he gets The life he deserves some Day..
The way he understands and talking with his keeper! so cuteee 😘
My family & I got to meet Bei (and Laurie) behind the public exhibit area at the zoo, in the keeper area, when he was just a few months old. No barriers and an hour of the keepers' undivided attention. He tried to crawl on us and they had to keep pulling him back. SO hard to believe he's already leaving! It flew by so quickly.
@Shao Kahn Your opinion is irrelevant to me and also has zero bearing on reality. The National Zoo offers this for a price on their site which you could have bothered to look up. Must suck to be so miserable you leave comments like this for fun.
Michelle Baker. Bei Bei’s indoor room in China is a dirty 6x6 cage with old improperly-shaped hammock. Bei Bei can’t sleep in that hammock so he sleeps on the floor.
One small part in helping Pandas recover. Best wishes to all.
Yeah. Bei bei is cute boy. He is a mama's boy. He is very gently
The 'hmm' sound he makes just turned my heart into a puddle. 😘😘💞💞🐼🐼💔💔
Bei Bei, Have a nice trip and you will be missed here!
Where Beibei went is not a zoo, it is a panda sanctuary which is far better than a zoo. Larger enclosure, natural landscape, etc. If you want to check by yourself, you can pay a visit (located in Chengdu). Not all pandas are on exhibition there. Usually pandas who have been on exhibit for years can enjoy their life without the interruption of tourists. Pandas not on exhibition will have even larger enclosures that makes them hard to spot by human eyes. Their life will be close to that in the wild. Less human contact is good for them. They are shy creatures and have no immunity for most diseases that are common among dogs. So no dogs are allowed in the sanctuary.
Bei Bei in China lives in a dirty 6x6 cage. Talk about better!
@@shelvikartaatmaja3307 lol doubtful
@@shelvikartaatmaja3307 Not true. Bei Bei's habitat in Bifengxia is beautiful. Lots of trees and lot of room to wander in natural surroundings. They take excellent care of the pandas there.
He's beautiful l hope he's doing well in China ❤💙❤💖💜💛❤️❤💙💖
Just feels painful to have to let him go, even now
How does one even say goodbye to such a lovely baby? Her heart will hv a Bei Bei void forever.
So beautiful and sad at same time 😢
I'm so sad. Please don't apart pandas from his own family and friends.
How sad to say good by after taken care of him all that time he would be rough and lots of tears to let go
I'm going miss Bei bei so much
Bro that is a person in a suit, yall can't fool me
Lauren thank u for bei bei
Handsome and very intelligent Bei Bei ❤
Au revoir bei bei ❤
Really hope Bei Bei doesn't need to go back to China. As he is happy here and he is familiar to the people, food and environment. So moving him away may not be a good idea and may affect his health again. And the breeding program may not be suitable for him. He is precious to the zoo too. So its definitely sad to see him leave.👌👍❤😘🥰😍🤩
He needs to join the breeding program in China to help to increase the size of the panda population. He will be fine in a more natural habitat and find a cute girl friend :-)
A very saddening farewell
For the folks who love Bei Bei, no worries. Bei Bei is going back home, the home of pandas in China is located in Sichuan, Shaanxi,and Gansu provinces. In this area (about 1,524 - 3,048 m), are the cool, wet bamboo forests. The climate is more suitable for pandas, and they're well cared for :)
Well dumb optimist. I wish I could be blindly happy too. I'm all for breeding but that's a crappy deal they have in China.
@@Bobsloth13 a deal ? ok ,bad America， no panda !! you deserve it !
@@Bobsloth13 a crappy deal is being in an enclosure, he deserves to live free in a nature preserve.
@@christinacope562 he will be in a breeding facility. Some parts are very good, but I was horrified when a documentary showed a male panda being put in with a female so they could mate. The male panda was very violent. The 'keeper' said, and he seemed serious, that there might be wounds, a limb might be lost (!), but the female would not die., so that was o.k. Apparently in the wild males will gather round the area of a female in 'heat' and will fight one another for access to her, and that will exhaust them so that they are not violent towards her. Bei Bei's mother is, frankly, lucky that she was artificially inseminated to produce her cubs. I will not soon forget that terrorised female when she managed to escape into her own enclosure for a while.
@@catherinetaylor2333 Can you share source?
So sad . 😔😭
He’s in China now❤
I hate the cages
Will this zoo get a new baby Panda?
This is not fair that all the pandas born in another country need to return to CCP. Crazy. It’s really sad to all the nanny and animals organization.
Too cute!
I would like to hear from lauren.
Uh oh, FedEx is flying him across the Pacific? Might wanna talk to Tom Hanks about that.
Nah only if the flight is to my country
So sad
So what happened to the other twin baby when born?
Did the zoo abandon it? Or the baby didn't make it and died?
Bei's twin died a few days later after birth
@@boojaboo7507 Oh I'm sorry and sad to hear this. Poor baby 🙏
@Andrew Riela Thank you for your reply.
Aloha! What made you think the zoo abandoned it? What a nasty comment!
@@shelvikartaatmaja3307 Can't you see this was a question? Besides, 1 year ago that was the time I started getting to know pandas. From the,many videos I watched, I learnt that Panda mothers abandon the weaker baby when they give birth to twins. If you think people is nasty, that's because you are nasty. You better look inside your own heart.
Security threat this one
Bei Bei, have been bringing joy to so many people! Thank you! But you are you are much safer in China than in USA. That’s for sure.
Why ?
And it's so amazing to see how pandas are bringing joy and even healing (i called it "Panda Therapy") to so many people around the world! People in Taiwan are crazy for the panda family which lives in Taipei (the family has just added a new member around a week ago after 6 years of hard work trying). Will start to get to know more about this panda family in USA. God bless them, with much love ❤️
❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍
The keeper should be able to fly to Chengdu once a year to see her lovely Beibei.
I would like to thank the keeper from the bottom of my heart to love and look after Beibei.
Why did they create this deal with China? Are giant pandas endangered? This is so sad
Not endangered anymore but still vulnerable
Bye bye Bei Bei🐼
Sad, what is sad.. You took this panda away from his mother at 18 months so you could use her as a breeding machine.. your success rate of live baby pandas is shocking, yes, I realise they are fragile, i still don't believe you have ever had any of their best interests at heart, ever.. You still forced separation from his mother at 18months, he has not been the same sweet baby since, they are captive, that's bad enough, he needs love, nurturing, his mother, not loneliness that ruined his demeanor.. Don't you people see, stop playing god..
Beloved? You’ll treat a panda like this and ya’ll still want more baby pandas???
Yeah, because they treated them properly, despite whatever the propaganda you’re buying into says.
奶妈舍不得贝贝也是舍不得
Baby Panda Fu Bao Born in Korea
She was returned to China
Fubao is being abused in China
Help!!! come back to my hometown Korea
Remember name, Fu Bao🙏🏻
Stupid
They should let him stay
All the pandas in the world are owned by China. He was sent here as a loan.
Shan Hussain Bei Bei wasn’t sent to the us. He was born at Smithsonian zoo, they’re just sending him home.
@@shannondominguez9725 his parents were... Regardless, ALL PANDAS ARE OWNED BY CHINA. Pandas don't do birth right citizenship
Shan Hussain yes I’m aware that all pandas are owned by China. And of course it doesn’t matter to him where he’s from, he’s a bear for goodness sake. I was simply clarifying that he was born in the US. I knew he’d be sent back to China eventually.
@@shanhussain6114 We know that, but china like to make money with everything. Is really unfair zoos HAVE to return all pandas to china. Obviously they want to have an EXCLUSIVE market just for them to finance their breeding programs, etc in china. Will be very interesting to know is Australia for example are renting the koalas and kangaroos to china, iam sure Australia is not doing that.
Please stop abusing panda, just learn from how Japan and Korea take care Panda
it was too heart-breaking, actually inhumane to force his return
@LL but the deal with China claims the pandas will be placed into a breeding program.....
@@buffalokay that's good for him too, and for the whole population
Andrew Riela is right. They can’t release him back into the wild with no survival skills! He was born in a zoo with humans providing food & shelters for him his whole life. He may find bamboo but might not be the species that he is used to. Where is he going to get apples, carrots and his special panda biscuits ? His mom Mei Xiang was also born in captivity so she didn’t know any survival skills to teach him either. All pandas borned in captivity will live out their lives in captivity. It will be more cruel & inhumane to dump them back in the wild. It’s a world they never known.
Force him return? Why don't you say it's inhumane to get his mom to the US in the first place
Shelvi Kartaatmaja
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@LL. Then why the pandas are on the list for extinction in China by the Chinese?
I hated this. Why is this one of our recommended videos. It shouldn't be.
240 lbs
I didnt like the women she is just like other criminals
until China pays for stealing intellectual properties - keep the panda !!! - let’s not forget Bei Bei was born here, he’s an American Panda !!!
You can only keep one thing "America great" or "Panda". BTW, he is the child of an immigrant.
Don't you understand about what is an agreement is??
Oh yes, you are part of no agreement society who forced by gun.
Ardi Wang WE’RE KEEPING BEI-BEI !!!
Wake up. It's time to take your medicine
He is CCP pandas, only CCP has pandas.. poor u
What a relief! Smithsonian zoo has been torturing pandas for years! Stop electric shock the pandas! Stop forcing them to give birth! Giving them enough food! Stop feeding them ice as their only snacks! Stop separating the cub from the mother. Both Meixiang and tiantian are under lots of stress. Please treat them humanely!!!!
Oh shut up that's false and you know it you old nasty troll
That’s a big lie! Shame on you, China! You don’t even have the decency to provide a proper hammock to sleep for these Panda!
You’re so gullible, it’s pathetic.
I would like for China to b more open about the welfare of these panda. Everyone should hav the right to know about our pandas.y r they all of a sudden dying.
Simple,it's the diplomacy so china just loans the panda including the child that birth from panda
They are open. Updates about Beibei have been posted on social media. You could look them up if you want.
What do you mean there is even a CZcams channel from Chengdu that constantly upload video about the panda.
@S. L. The Chinese only updated Bei Bei every 4 months.
bad America , no panda !!
Yeah, thanks Trump.
@Andy Lee. Unfortunately, Bad China, with pandas !!
China will cause the extinction of Pandas, by locating them all in one region.
CZcams cult destroyer, Bei Bei’s indoor enclosure is a 6x6 dirty cage. The Chinese don’t even have a decency to provide a proper hammock for them to sleep. Our Bei Bei sleeps on the floor.