The National Zoo announced Butterstick’s new name this morning. After weeks of online voting from fans of the panda cub, and waiting 100 days–a Chinese tradition–we finally found out this morning what the cub’s name will be. “Tai Shan” means “Peaceful Mountain” and as one who has spent many hours peering at him on the PandaCam I can say that the name fits.

Although I was pretty fond of “Butterstick” (and will probably continue to call him that) Tai Shan is a good official name. I think I even voted for it.