Two panda cubs born in Spanish zoo
This picture taken on Tuesday shows a person feeding one of the two giant panda cubs born at Madrid's Zoo.
Two newborn pandas are the latest additions to the Madrid Zoo.
The zoo says the hairless, pink babies were born to a giant panda Tuesday after being conceived through artificial insemination. They weigh 150 grams (5 ounces). It will be a few days before veterinarians can determine their gender.
They are the first pandas born in the Madrid Zoo since it unveiled one named Chu-Lin in 1982 - the first panda born in captivity in Europe.
Spain's National Research Council took part in the insemination. It said pandas have been born in Europe four times - twice in Madrid and two other times in the Vienna zoo.
The Madrid Zoo has four of the endangered animals: the newborns and their parents, mother Hua Zui Ba and father Bing Xing. - AP
Published Sept 8 2010
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