OT: Twin Giant Pandas in China Give Birth to Twin Cubs
BEIJING — Twin giant pandas each gave birth to twin cubs this week as the number of pandas born in captivity this year in China rose to six, state media reported Tuesday.
The sisters, Qi Zhen and Qi Yuan, delivered their babies on Sunday and Monday at the Chengdu Giant Panda Reproduction and Research Center in Chengdu, the capital of southwest China's Sichuan province, where they live, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
A 7.7-ounce panda cub was born on Monday at the Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center, elsewhere in Sichuan, and it became the heaviest cub in the history of China's artificial breeding program, according to the report.
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