Two giant twin pandas are born at the Madrid zoo | “A great contribution” for an endangered species

Nail The giant panda gave birth to two twin cubs this Monday at Madrid Zoo, a fact considered “a great contribution” to the conservation of this endangered species.

The Madrid Zoo-Aquarium said in a statement that the female, Hua Zui Ba, gave birth to the first cub around 8:30 a.m. local time after more than four hours of childbirth, while the second appeared after noon.

In the birth footage, you can see how the female expels the first cub, a small hairless animal with pink skin, which utters shrill cries, then licks it clean and puts it on her lap.

Newborns “will be totally dependent on their mother for the next four months “until they can walk on their own, the zoo explained.

Two technicians from the Chengdu Panda Breeding Base in China will help local vets treat the twins, whose gender has yet to be determined, the statement said.

The giant pandas couple Hua Zui Ba and their partner Bing Xing They previously had four other cubs.

This new birth “constitutes a great contribution in the field of the conservation of endangered species,” added the zoo.

The Raising pandas, both in captivity and in the wild, is complicated, according to experts, with very short annual heat periods for females.

The giant panda is a vulnerable species, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, with fewer than 2,000 specimens in its habitat.