Welcome home, Tai Shan

Trainers feed giant panda Tai Shan as he waits to be loaded onto a cargo plane and shipped back to China, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, at the National Zoo in Washington.[Photo/Xinhua] 

Related: A panda-breeding center in Chengdu, Sichuan province, is looking for a Chinese language teacher for one of the two pandas due to arrive from the United States on Friday. 

The crate carrying giant panda Tai Shan is being loaded onto a truck at the National Zoo in Washington,Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010.[Photo/Xinhua] 

News cameramen film giant panda Tai Shan at the National Zoo in Washington,Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010.[Photo/Xinhua]