Berlin’s zoo has released new photos of twin panda cubs born this summer and says the two are developing well.
The zoo said Thursday the two cubs each now weighed about 11 pounds — quite an increase from their 6.56-ounce and 4.8-ounce weightsZookeepers initially hand fed the cubs — the first giant pandas born in Germany — with bottles of milk pumped from mother Meng Meng, but they now feed on their own.
The two cubs at Zoo Berlin were born earlier this year. China’s permanent-loan pandas Meng Meng and Jiao Qing are the parents.There are fewer than 2,000 of the endangered pandas estimated alive in the wild today.
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