Panda discovers his love for snow

January 24, 2016 08:48 am | Updated September 23, 2016 02:49 am IST - WASHINGTON

The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington is closed, but a video of one of the zoo’s four pandas enjoying the snow there is making a lot of people smile.

The video was posted on the zoo’s Facebook page and on Twitter Saturday morning. It shows 18-year-old, 264-pound panda Tian Tian rolling in the snow, throwing it on himself and lying on his back almost as if he’s making a snow angel. The caption on the video reads: “Tian Tian woke up this morning to a lot of snow, and he was pretty excited about it.”

By 1 p.m. Saturday, the video had been viewed 7.5 million times on Facebook and shared more than 440,000 times. It had been re-tweeted about 80,000 times.

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