--- description: Man in panda suit challenges giant panda at National Zoo Tian Tian to a snow battle. title: Watch This Man Try to Be as Cute as a Panda in the Snow image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4480996243be49f/69887a828e0601640c46446a/screen-shot-2016-01-25-at-2-08-52-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch This Man Try to Be as Cute as a Panda in the Snow  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Jan 25, 2016 7:46 PM CUT   by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Jan 25, 2016 7:46 PM CUT You may think you loved the National Zoo’s video of a [giant panda](http://time.com/3138509/bao-bao-panda-first-birthday/ "undefined") playing in the snow Saturday, but _no one_ loved that clip more than this Maryland man, who filmed himself rolling around in the white stuff in a panda suit to challenge the animal named “Tian Tian” to a “snow battle” (whatever that means). Since Jeffrey Perez of Millersville, Maryland, uploaded this clip to Facebook on January 23, it has racked up nearly 2 million views and has been shared almost 20,000 times: But Perez should be careful what he wishes for. [Pandas are not as cuddly as they look](http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150310-the-truth-about-giant-pandas "undefined"), and could [bite when provoked](http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28127056/ns/technology%5Fand%5Fscience-science/t/leaf-me-alone-panda-attacks-park-worker/ "undefined"), so he probably wouldn’t make it out of the snow battle unscathed (and the costume probably wouldn’t protect him much). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4192820/panda-snow-national-zoo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4192820/panda-snow-national-zoo/"},"headline":"Watch This Man Try to Be as Cute as a Panda in the Snow","datePublished":"2016-01-25T19:46:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:11.700Z","description":"And the pandamonium continues","url":"https://time.com/4192820/panda-snow-national-zoo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4480996243be49f/69887a828e0601640c46446a/screen-shot-2016-01-25-at-2-08-52-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4480996243be49f/69887a828e0601640c46446a/screen-shot-2016-01-25-at-2-08-52-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2016-01-25 at 2.08.52 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4192820/panda-snow-national-zoo/","name":"Watch This Man Try to Be as Cute as a Panda in the Snow"}}]}] ```