According to the French zoo, the female panda bear ( Ailuropoda melanoleuca ) gave birth to twin female cubs early Monday morning, being "very lively, pink and plump." His mother, Huan Huan, and father, Yuan Zi, were sent to France in 2012 on a 10-year loan from the China Zoo, a move that aims to highlight the good ties between the countries.
The sex of the puppies was determined by the Chinese experts in charge of caring for them, but it will be necessary to confirm it definitively since the external genitalia do not appear until they are several months old, so they will not be baptized for about 100 days. Also, they will spend a few years in France before being returned to China, the zoo said.
An exceptional birth
It is not common to see the birth of twins in pandas and, as if this were not enough, adults are not usually in the mood to have sex with their counterparts, which, added to the fact that their window for conception is small (females are in heat only once a year for about 24-48 hours ), only complicates the possibility of seeing a giant panda pregnancy.
In China, there are an estimated 1,800 giant pandas in the wild and another 500 in captivity. Since 1961 the panda is the symbol of WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature).
