Thursday, June 24, 2021

Twins!


Ueno Zoo panda, Shin Shin, gave birth to twins yesterday! The twins were born an hour and a half apart at 1:03 am and 2:32 am on Wednesday. Mother Shin Shin and father Ri Ri are also parents to Xiang Xiang, born in June 2017. It will be awhile before the new pandas will be presented to the public, but I am looking forward to visiting the zoo then.



This photo of a sign was taken at the Ueno Zoo in January 2017, before Xiang Xiang was born.

5 comments:

Queeniepatch said...

It's really twin happiness - double happiness. Congratulations to Shinshin and Riri.

Cynthia@wabi-sabi-quilts said...

It's such wonderful news! I had read about this yesterday. But I just want to thank you for your blog because often I learn something about Japan I never knew, or you post something newsworthy that I missed.

Vireya said...

That's exciting! I hope you can get to see them safely while they are small and cute.

Jeanie said...

Oh, that's super fun!

Leonore Winterer said...

Panda twins! How exciting!