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The National Zoo has at last released more details on the planned “Tai Shan Farewell Celebration” it started hyping a couple weeks ago, and they’re pretty fantastic. Chief among them: a planned “Land O’Lakes® Butterstick Tribute,” surely the greatest promotional tie-in ever conceived. According to a zoo release, the Land O’Lakes tribute will “showcase photos of Tai Shan since his birth in 2005.” Dig it.
This is one of the rare times the Zoo has publicly acknowledged Tai Shan’s popular nickname, so we had to ask, how did this come about?
“We approached them,” explained Zoo spokesperson Karin Korpowski-Gallo. “We just cold called Land O’Lakes, and it was an ideal situation for them. I mean, at the end of the day, he is referred to all over, especially at your organization, as Butterstick,” she told DCist.
What can we say, our butter-filled cups runneth over. The rest of the details are below the jump.
