Giant Panda Gives Birth to Twin Cubs at Animal Park in Wakayama Prefecture

A giant Panda at the Adventure World animal park in western Japan has given birth to two cubs, the fourth time twin pandas have been born at the zoo.

The twins, a male and a female, were born yesterday morning and are yet to be named, spokesman Shinjiro Kamasaki said by telephone. The mother, Rauhin, was born in 2000 at the park in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Osaka.

There are seven other pandas currently living at Adventure World, according to its website. The park, opened in 1998, also showcases marine and safari animals.

To contact the reporter on this story: Adam Le in Osaka at ale14@bloomberg.net.

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