Baby pandas enjoy birthday treats at France zoo

A French zoo celebrated the first birthday of their star residents, twin female baby pandas, on Tuesday. The twins, who weighed just a few hundred grams when they were born on August 2 2021 are now over 30 kilograms each one year later.

Their parents are at the Beauval Zoo, south of Paris, on a 10-year loan from China aimed at highlighting good ties with France. They are their second and third cubs after the first panda ever born in France, Yuan Meng, in 2017.

The cubs will spend a few years in France before being sent to China. There are about 1,800 pandas living in the wild in China and about 500 in captivity worldwide.