Why did the pandas eat cake?

Giant panda Mei Xiang, left, and her cub Xiao Qi Ji eat a frozen juice cake. Pandas have lived at the National Zoo for 50 years. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
Visitors watch the pandas. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
Visitors take pictures with a panda statue at the zoo. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
The zoo gift shop sells panda stuffed animals. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
Mei Xiang, left, and Xiao Qi Ji chow down on the cake! (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

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The National [nash-eh-nuhl] Zoo had a party! Pandas have lived there for 50 years!

Mama and her cub ate a frozen fruit juice cake. Sweet potatoes, carrots, and sugar cane topped the cake. Yum!

Pray: Thank God that we can see pandas up close in our own country.

Read More: Pandas live in the wild in China. China and the United States have had an agreement for 50 years. China loans some U.S. zoos pandas to care for. Any panda cubs born at those zoos must be returned to China when they turn four years old. Giant panda mom Mei Xiang [may-sh-ONG] and her cub Xiao Qi Ji [SHEEOW-chee-jee] live at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. So does dad Tian Tian. He had a cake too. Psalm 50:10 tells us, “For every beast of the forest is mine.”