Double the trouble! Giant panda twins born at French zoo

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Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher’s Beauval Zoo welcomed two healthy new-born panda cubs on Monday, as seen in a video issued by the zoo team.

The female giant panda Huan Huan, who came on loan from China along with her partner Yuan Zi, gave birth to the twins in the early hours of Monday under the supervision of Chinese experts who travelled to the zoo help ensure a safe delivery.

The happy vets assisted the cubs, weighing, listening to the heartbeat and cutting the umbilical cords.

One French staff member said the birth was ‘a big moment,’ and compared it to 2017 when Huan Huan also had twins only for one of the cubs to die a day later.

“That’s the finale but this is also a beginning of a new story. It will be a lot of work to face with these two newborns, it is very exciting and super interesting,” said one of the zoo vets.

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SOT, Zoo staff member (French): “Huan Huan is taking care of the babies so well, she is very attentive, she is now with the second baby, she follows with attention everything that is going on, protecting the babies.”

SOT, Zoo staff member (French): “It’s a big moment because we have got two babies, it has already happened four years ago, but unfortunately one of the cubs did not survive, and now we have two wonderful babies. The first one 149 grams, very good for a baby panda, and the other one is very lively in the mother’s hands, who does not want to separate from him at all and is completely concentrated on her baby. So we will see, I think we will wait a bit to take the baby back and weigh him, we still need to weigh him and listen to him with a stethoscope, take care of his umbilical cord.”

SOT, Zoo staff member (French): “That’s the finale but this is also a beginning of a new story. It will be a lot of work to face with these two newborns, it is very exciting and super interesting.”

SOT, Zoo staff member (French): “There are no particular concerns. The babies are lively. They are making a lot of noises when they are out of warm places so it is a bit complicated. For now there has been the first listening with the stethoscope and we will repeat in the night, tomorrow daytime. For the moment we have no worries about them. They are extremely lively and show no problems.”

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