Just in time for the Olympic Games, a pair of giant pandas have been born in China.
Bei Bei and Huan Huan have been named after two of the Olympic mascot because they were born on the second day of the 2008 Games.
Chinese officials say they hope the birth of the two males with bring luck to China's Olympic athletes.
The panda's mother, 9-year-old Qi Zhen, gave birth to a twins after over 100 days of pregnancy at a panda breeding research centre near the city of Chengdu in Sichuan province.
The mother (right) is keeping one of the twins with her. The other is being kept in an incubator where visitors to the centre can see him.
Eight baby pandas had been born at the base since July and one more pregnant mother is expected to give birth before the end of the Olympics.
There are currently 75 giant pandas at the Chengdu research base, which survived the Sichuan earthquake.
The centre has received a number of pandas evacuated from the quake-affected Wolong panda sanctuary.
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One of the twins is being kept in an incubator at the centre
Mama panda is taking care of the other twin herself
First baby steps
