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They are the second and third pandas ever born in France.

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Giant panda Huan Huan holds one of her newborn cubs at the Beauval Zoo in Saint-Aignan, France, on Monday. Huan Huan gave birth to two female cubs early Monday, the French zoo announced. She and dad Yuan Zi are also parents to Yuan Meng, who was born in 2017 and was the first giant panda to be born in France.

A giant panda on loan to France from China gave birth to female twin cubs Monday, a French zoo announced, declaring “they are very lively, pink and plump.”

The Beauval Zoo, south of Paris, said the twins were born shortly after 1 a.m. They weigh 5.3 ounces and 4.6 ounces. Their mother, Huan Huan, and father, Yuan Zi, are at Beauval on a 10-year loan from China. The twins are their second and third cubs after the first panda born in France, Yuan Meng, in 2017.

“Huan Huan is taking care of them very well. She took them in her mouth to lick them and clean them. We can hear little cries,” the zoo said in a statement.

[Photos tell the history of the National Zoo’s giant pandas]

The zoo said the cubs’ genders were determined by the Chinese experts in charge of taking care of them.

Giant pandas have difficulty breeding, and their pregnancies are challenging to follow.

“We just lived a moment of rare intensity. These births are always very exceptional, but they also bring some surprises,” said Delphine Delord, director of the Beauval Zoo.

The cubs will not be named before 100 days, which is customary in China. They will spend a few years in France before being sent to China, the zoo said.

Other nations in Europe also have giant pandas, including Austria, Britain, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Finland.

There are about 1,800 pandas living in the wild in China and about 500 in captivity worldwide.

China for decades gave friendly nations its unofficial national mascot in what was known as “panda diplomacy.” More recently, the country has loaned pairs of pandas to zoos, including the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, at an estimated cost of $1 million per year.

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