The Panda Party is back on as giant pandas will return to Washington’s National Zoo by year’s end FILE – Giant pandas eat bamboo at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, May 4, 2022, in Washington.

While the sisters are making the zoo their home for the weekend, local Martha Shultz is spending her birthday with a panda party. “We have tickets for Saturday morning,” Shultz said.

Half a year after the nation’s capital bid an emotional farewell to its giant pandas, the National Zoo is expecting a renewed surge in panda-mania with the announcement that two more of the ...