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For the first time, Sichuan Wolong photographed sub-adult twins of wild giant pandas

For the first time, Sichuan Wolong photographed sub-adult twins of wild giant pandas

This is an infrared camera photograph of a sub-adult wild giant panda twin (taken on July 24). Xinhua News Agency

On December 17, Sichuan Wolong Nature Reserve announced the infrared camera shooting of a pair of wild giant panda sub-adult twins, which is the first time in the world that sub-adult wild giant panda twins have been photographed.

Usually, after wild pandas give birth to twins, most panda mothers choose to abandon one because they don't have enough energy. According to previous studies, there are almost no records of twins born to giant pandas in the wild.

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