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Jack Black Helps Name Panda

2/17/2011
Robert Kirchgassner

Jack Black, who voiced the title character in Kung Fu Panda (2008), has inspired the name of a panda cub.

The actor was recently at a zoo in Atlanta, GA for the naming ceremony of Po, a cub named after his character in Panda. The News Tribune reported that Black posed for pictures with the new arrival.

The real Po, a 10-pound cub, was the only panda born in a U.S. zoo in 2010. The species ranks high on the endangered list.

Jack Black Helps to Name Panda

2/15/2011
Lauren Cafarell
The 'Kung Fu Panda' star helps to name a real panda

Jack Black joined Zoo Atlanta on Tuesday for a naming ceremony for a 3-month-old giant panda cub, the only panda born in a U.S. zoo last year.

The zoo named the young panda Po after the main character voiced by Black in Kung Fu Panda, the The Daily Herald reports.

Animal Dignitary to Depart

1/31/2010
Eric Vosika

It doesn’t seem that long, but after nearly five years in Washington D.C., one of the nation’s most beloved dignitaries is leaving. Tai Shan, a 4-1/2-year-old giant panda adolescent, is being shipped off to China. Tai was originally born in Washington and has lived at the Smithsonian National Zoo. As part of an agreement between the United States and China, Tai is being sent to China to help repopulate

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