First-time mother Ju Xiao gave birth to twins at the Bifengxia base in Ya'an, but only nursed the first cub, according to a Malaysian news agency. Pandas rarely give birth to twins and mothers often only take the first cub as their own.
When the second cub was ignored, it was immediately sent to a panda nursery, said Tang Chunxiang, deputy chief of the giant panda protection and research centre in Wolong, which oversees the Ya'an reserve. The second cub, which was male, weighed a meagre 135 grammes.
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