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China hears patter of tiny panda paws
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-07-13 09:04
China has had a double summer surprise with two pairs of twin pandas born at
a remote and foggy mountain reserve.
Chinese researchers
take care of twin giant panda cubs at the China Giant Panda Protection and
Research Center in Wolong, southwest China's Sichuan province, July 9,
2005. Giant panda Guo Guo gave birth to twin cubs July 8, 2005. Guo Guo
and the twin cubs are doing well, according to the center. Picture taken
on July 9, 2005. [newsphoto] |
Guo Guo, seven
years old and a first-time mother, gave birth to two cubs Friday at the Wolong
panda reserve in southwest Sichuan province a week after her neighbor, Ying
Ying, had twins, Xinhua news agency said.
"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, state media previously reported.
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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