Hong Kong welcomes twin cubs by world’s oldest first-time giant panda mum

Hong Kong has welcomed two baby pandas which were conceived naturally after Ying Ying gave birth to a pair of twins, a male and female, on Thursday morning, becoming the world’s oldest first-time giant panda mum.

She bore her cubs just one day shy of her 19th birthday, equivalent to 57 human years, at her home in Ocean Park, which called the birth of the twins “a true rarity”.