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Double Trouble - Twin panda cubs on display in Japan

One of the twin pandas that were born on 2 December in Adventure World in Shirahama
One of the twin pandas that were born on 2 December in Adventure World in Shirahama

Visitors have flocked to see twin giant panda cubs at a zoo in Wakayama Prefecture in midwestern Japan.

Staff at Adventure World in Shirahama brought the female cubs to an indoor playground packed with about 300 visitors yesterday.

The babies weigh around 500 grams each, almost three times as much as when they were born on 2 December.

Their mother has been breastfeeding them.

Adventure World has seven giant pandas, the most of any zoo in Japan.

The twins will go on show for 20 minutes twice a day.

The cubs have not yet been named.