Double Happiness: Giant Panda Gives Birth to Twins [VIDEOS]

Here’s video of Mei Xiang giving birth over the weekend to the first of two Giant Panda cubs at 5:35 PM and a big surprise a few hours later at 10:07 PM on Saturday. Interest was so great that the famous “panda cam” at the Smithsonian's National Zoo crashed its web page. The panda team retrieved one of the cubs per Giant Panda Twin Hand-Rearing Protocol and placed it in an incubator. Both cubs appear to be doing well. The team is swapping each cub with Mei Xiang every three hours, allowing each to nurse while the other is bottle-fed and kept warm in an incubator to increase the likelihood that both will survive.

Smithsonian’s National Zoo via YouTube

Smithsonian’s National Zoo via YouTube