Photo taken on Aug 4, 2017 shows a screen shot of the pregnant panda Huan Huan in ZooParc de Beauval in Saint-Aignan, France.[Photo/Xinhua]

SAINT-AIGNAN, France — Huan Huan, the female panda which is on loan to France from China, has delivered twin cubs on Friday night.

In her first delivery, Huan Huan has given birth to two cubs at interval of a few minutes, said the zoo in a communique.

The first panda cub was born at 10:18 pm local time (2018 GMT), and the other came 14 minutes later.

In the wild, female pandas raise only a cub, the "strongest", the one that has the most chances of survival, and abandon the second. Huan Huan has chosen the second cub and the first one was put immediately to an incubator.

The first cub was put immediately to the incubator but was announced dead shortly.

The female panda and her male partner Yuan Zi arrived in central France's Beauval zoo in January 2012. They are on loan from China for ten years.

The female panda is only on heat once a year for two days. There are about 2,000 pandas in the world.They classified as "vulnerable" species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).