The mother gave birth to the twins — one male and one female — at Hong Kong's Ocean Park just a day before she turned 19 years old,
welcomed the birth of its first locally born giant pandas on Thursday, with their mother becoming the world’s oldest first-time mother of its kind on record, the theme park that houses them announced.
Pandas are widely considered as the country’s unofficial national mascot and China’s giant panda loan program with overseas zoos has long been known as a tool of Beijing’s Although Ying Ying started showing symptoms including decreased appetite, increased need for rest time and changes in hormonal levels in late July, her pregnancy was only confirmed on Sunday. On Wednesday, her care team noticed Ying Ying’s labor symptoms and her amniotic fluid broke at night. After over five hours of labor, the babies were safely delivered Thursday morning, the park said.
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