TOKYO — A month ahead of the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, the city has another reason to celebrate – giant panda Shin Shin has given birth to twin cubs at Ueno Zoo, the first panda birth there in four years.
The Tokyo zoo’s website listed the two newborn pandas as being born an hour and a half apart at 1:03 a.m. (1403 GMT) and 2:32 a.m. on Wednesday. Their gender has not been determined, and they have not yet been named.
“All the staff are working together to observe and protect the giant panda mother and children,” the zoo said in a statement on its panda website.
One of the cubs weighs 124 g (4.37 ounces), according to the announcement. Th…
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