Eleven months after Washington's National Zoo sent its three wildly popular pandas — Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji — back to China, a new pair of bears arrived in the United States on Tuesday.

“Qing Bao is our more reserved panda, she’s a little cautious, a little bit more nervous about the new noises and sounds,” says Laurie Thompson, assistant curator of giant pandas. “Bao Li is just full of energy, he loves people, he wants to interact. Just kind of opposites.”

Two giant pandas from China landed in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning en route to their new home at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. The pandas, one male and one female,