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Panda cubs doing well in Wolong
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Updated: 2005-07-13 10:39
China has had a double summer surprise with two pairs of twin
pandas born at a remote and foggy mountain reserve.
Guo Guo, seven years old and a first-time mother, gave birth to two cubs July
8 at the Wolong panda reserve in southwest Sichuan province a week after her
neighbor, Ying Ying, had twins.
The picture taken
on July 12 shows the twin giant panda cubs, born on July 8 at the Wolong
giant panda breeding and research center in southwest China's Sichuan
Province, grow healthily under wardship of the center's experts. Their
mother Guo Guo is seven years old and they are Guo Guo's fist babies.
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"Under our experts' 24-hour
wardship, the mother panda and her baby cubs have safely passed 'the first three
post-delivery risky days'," Li Desheng, assistant director of the reserve, was
quoted as saying of Guo guo.
Guo Guo appeared flustered by her crying cubs at first and reserve staff had
to intervene when she accidentally dropped one of her babies the day they were
born, Xinhua said.
The Wolong reserve is one of the few places in the world that has had
consistent success expanding its population of pandas, which are notoriously
difficult to breed in captivity.
More than 70 panda cubs had been born at the reserve, 61 of which had
survived. The giant panda is one of the world's most endangered species, with
fewer than 1,600 living in the wild in western China.
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