WATCH: A giant panda at a zoo in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, has given birth to female twins. NHK captured the births on camera Tuesday night.
TORONTO – Cameras were rolling Tuesday when a giant panda gave birth to twin cubs in western Japan.
Fourteen-year-old mother Rauhin cuddled and licked the first cub until the second arrived hours later. According to Adventure World in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, both cubs weighed just over 180 grams and measured just over 20 centimetres long.
Rauhin’s water broke around 1 p.m. but it took nearly six hours for the first cub to arrive. According to The Japan Times, giant panda births normally take one or two hours after the water breaks.
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Rauhin, in her early 40s in human years, has delivered on four different occasions. The new cubs bring her total of youngsters to seven.
The father, Eimei, is 22–his late 60s in human years. However, unlike some humans of that age, zoo officials claim Eimei’s reproductive ability is high.
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