Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, the two giant pandas of the the National Zoological Park in Washington D.C. will get a new exhibit.

The renovation will nearly double the outdoor space of the Zoo's current 17,500-square-foot exhibit, providing closer visitor contact with the pandas. The new habitat will also give visitors a sense of how pandas live and interact in the Asian wildlife and with humans who share their native habitats.

The expanded habitat will be custom designed for Mei Xiang and Tian Tian and is based upon behavioral preference data collected since they arrived at the National Zoo in December of 2000. The new expanded habitat will include a slide for the pandas to roll down, cool rocks both for pandas and for visitors, and foggers that will create a cooler area more natural to the giant panda's native habitat. The expansion of the Fujifilm Giant Panda Habitat will anchor the first phase of Asia Trail, a new section of the Zoo highlighting animals native to the Asian continent.

Completion of the new habitat is scheduled for the first quarter of 2006.

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