(news from December 2006) SICHUAN, China --
Sixteen baby pandas were born at the Sichuan Wolong Panda Protection and Breed Center between July 2005 and December of 2006, including 5 sets of twins. In the wild, only own twin usually survives but in zoos and breeding centers, with human assistance, both twins should be fine.
The cubs are weighed and measured every five days. YouTube has clips of the cubs, perhaps before being weighed and then at about 6 months, playing outside. (What I like best is hearing the pandas!) Scenes like those would never happen in the wild as pandas are solitary creatures.
The pandas should start to walk and stop nursing by February 2007, but the breeding program continues and there should be more little ones there.
There is also an email bouncing around the internet with a China Foto Press photographs attached. To see some of their original photos, see Happy Life in the Panda's Kindergarten and Chinese Giant Panda.
Sources included:
NBC
Panda International
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