This image provided on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019 by the Zoo Berlin shows two Panda cubs in the Zoo in Berlin, Germany. China's permanent loan Pandas Meng Meng and Jiao Qing are the parents of the two cubs that were born on Aug. 31, 2019 at the Zoo in Berlin. (2019 Zoo Berlin via AP)This image provided on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019 by the Zoo Berlin shows one of the two Panda cubs in the Zoo in Berlin, Germany. China's permanent loan Pandas Meng Meng and Jiao Qing are the parents of the two cubs that were born on Aug. 31, 2019 at the Zoo in Berlin. (2019 Zoo Berlin via AP)This image provided on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019 by the Zoo Berlin shows one of the two Panda cubs in the Zoo in Berlin, Germany. China's permanent loan Pandas Meng Meng and Jiao Qing are the parents of the two cubs that were born on Aug. 31, 2019 at the Zoo in Berlin. (2019 Zoo Berlin via AP)
This image provided on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019 by the Zoo Berlin shows two Panda cubs in the Zoo in Berlin, Germany. China's permanent loan Pandas Meng Meng and Jiao Qing are the parents of the two cubs that were born on Aug. 31, 2019 at the Zoo in Berlin. (2019 Zoo Berlin via AP)
BERLIN – Berlin’s main zoo has released new photos of twin panda cubs born this summer, saying the two are developing well.
The zoo said Thursday that the two cubs each now weigh about 5 kilograms (11 pounds) — quite an increase from their 186 gram (6.56 ounce) and 136 gram (4.8 ounce) weights when they were born August 31.
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Zookeepers initially hand fed the cubs — the first giant pandas born in Germany — with bottles of milk pumped from mother Meng Meng but they now feed on their own.
She and father Jiao Qing came to Germany from China two years ago.
There are fewer than 2,000 of the endangered pandas estimated alive in the wild today.
The cubs have not yet been named or shown to the public.
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