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Giant Pandas Love Snow

No, really, they do

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That pandas love the cold probably isn’t news, since they come from the chilly regions of northern China. But you might not realize quite how much they love it until you see the National Zoo’s panda,Tian Tian, in action during last weekend's Snowzilla event

Eliene Augenbraun is a multimedia science producer, formerly Nature Research's Multimedia Managing Editor and Scientific American's senior video producer. Before that, she founded and ran ScienCentral, an award-winning news service providing ABC and NBC with science news stories. She has a PhD in Biology.

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