Well there’s a lot of good science already this early in the  year, but hey – let’s relax a little bit and look at this big guy just having fun in the snow – this is footage of a giant panda seeing snow for the first time in his life. In the D.C. area, giant panda Bao Bao spent much of the morning playing in it for the very first time. The sixteen month-old panda cub tumbled down the hill in her outdoor enclosure, climbed trees and pounced on her mother Mei Xiang.

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