Giant panda Qing Bao celebrated her fourth birthday on Friday at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in D.C.

This was her first birthday at the zoo since she came to the nation’s capital in October 2024 with Bao Li .

She was presented with a panda-friendly fruitsicle cake made of frozen, diluted beet, pineapple and apple juice with water.

The cake, which was made by the zoo’s commissary team, was decorated with apples, blueberries, peaches, shredded carrots, strawberries and peaches with a big No. 4 sculpture, the zoo said.

Also, the zookeepers gave Qing Bao a new navy blue jolly ball, which they attached to a tree branch. After batting the ball from the tree branch, she found a number of pink, purple and yellow enrichment boxes and went to one box that said “QB Pie” and took small bites

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