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Hey friends, it's Jane. Last year I visited the giant pandas at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

Pandas only exist in the wild in China, and the pandas at the D.C. Zoo were on loan from the Chinese government.

Just recently, China decided that it was time for the pandas to return home.

So the three pandas I met were loaded up into special carriers and returned safely to Chengdu, China.

With these pandas in the news so much, we thought you might be hearing about them.

And we wanted you to be able to listen back to our panda episode to learn more about them.

Enjoy!

Music! This is But Why, a podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public Radio.

I'm Jane Lindholm.

In this show, we answer questions from you, kids listening around the world, and it's our job to find answers for you.

Usually we're doing that work from our home base here in Vermont, but sometimes we get to go report from other places, and we take your questions with us.

For this episode, we got to go on a field trip to learn a little bit more about an animal that sounds like this.

That was a newborn. Do you know what it is?

Let's hear what this animal sounds like when it's a kid.

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