Just outside the Panda Habitat, I meet Tai Shan.
We quickly bond over the fact that we are two of only a handful of bears
with their own websites.
But as the poster behind us shows, Tai Shan does not simply have a website,
he is the subject of a web cam that follows him ALL the time. http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/
Indeed, in order to guide me around Washington,
Tai Shan had to rig the web cam with old tapes
so that his fans would not know he had gone missing.
He told me he learned this trick from watching the movie "Oceans Eleven".