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Giant panda Mei Xiang celebrates 17th birthday at National Zoo

WASHINGTON – Forget, “Don’t feed the animals.” Let them eat cake!

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo is celebrating a big birthday Wednesday.

Giant panda Mei Xiang just turned 17 years old.

The zoo delivered her a frozen cake to celebrate.

Don’t worry, the treat was “panda friendly.”

The zoo tweeted the announcement Wednesday afternoon:

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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