CNN —A giant panda at a South Korean zoo has given birth to the country’s first twin cubs. The palm-sized female pandas were born at the Everland Resort theme park southeast of the capital Seoul on July 7, the zoo said in a statement Tuesday. The twins’ birth is considered rare – there’s less than a 50% chance of pandas giving birth to twins – and in the wild, they struggle to survive as mothers can often only care for one of their cubs. A caretaker carries panda cub Fu Bao, about 100 days after her birth in 2020. It is estimated that around 1,800 pandas remain in the wild, mostly in the mountains of Sichuan, western China.

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Persons: Ai Bao, –, Fu Bao, JUNG YEON, ”, Kang Cheol, Le Bao, Jung Dong Organizations: CNN, YouTube, Getty, South, Everland Locations: Korean, Seoul, Korea, China, Beijing, South Korea, Sichuan