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Panda gives birth to twins in Japan Updated Sun. Dec. 24 2006 2:04 PM ET
In this photo released by Adventure World in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, Giant Panda 'Meimei' eats foods while holding her hairless newborn twins, first baby on top and the second in bottom sticking to each other, under her chin in the zoo Saturday, Dec. 23, 2006.(AP Photo/Adventure World via Kyodo News, HO) Associated Press TOKYO -- Mei Mei, a giant panda from China, gave birth to twins at a zoo in western Japan, and the mother and babies were in good condition, a zoo official said Sunday. The baby pandas were born on Saturday at Adventure World in Wakayama, 280 miles southwest of Tokyo. Officials have yet to confirm their sex, spokesman Tadashi Ishikawa said. Although one of the twins weighs just three ounces, considered to be premature, both babies and Mei Mei were in good health, Ishikawa said. Mei Mei, 12, and partner Eimei, 14, are both on loan from China. China's Xinhua News Agency said that their birth raised the number of artificially bred pandas born this year to a record 30. Ishikawa said, however, that officials could not confirm if the twins were born as a result of natural mating or artificial insemination because both methods were tried on the couple. The panda is one of the world's rarest animals, with about 1,590 living in the wild in China, mostly in Sichuan and the western province of Shaanxi. Another 180 have been bred in captivity. 
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XxAxX said: awwww where can i adopt one?
 they are an endangered species...that's why they live in zoos | |
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purplerein said: XxAxX said: awwww where can i adopt one?
not until I have eaten my fill of them  | |
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purplerein said: XxAxX said: Oh come on! Don't try to tell me you haven't had a craving for Panda-Kabobs!  | |
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das ist cute | |
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bucketofbouncyballs said: das ist cute
It is  . We have pandas here in our zoo as well.
But why are you posting the first half of your post in German  ?With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A.... | |
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