This video is no longer available. What’s black and white and full of birthday cake? The National Zoo’s Bao Li, who celebrated his fourth birthday Monday in D.C. with dozens of adoring fans watching.

It hasn’t been an easy year around Washington, but there were still moments that offered levity. From fun animal news to ...

I'm taking the liberty of posting this as a new and very brief essay to follow up on one that I wrote last week about this panda birth because this tragic death of the young panda (see also for ...