Japan's yet-to-be-named one-month-old panda twins - stars of Wakayama Adventure World in central Japan – have been introduced to the world.
The newborns came wrapped in swaddling towels as they were gently placed in an incubator for press to photograph and film.
The two were born on August 11 to nine-year-old giant panda Rauhin. They are the Japan-born panda's second set of twin babies in one of Japan's most productive panda breeding centres. The babies are also notable for having been conceived naturally rather than by artificial insemination.
The two pandas weigh in at 760g and 682g each, the male being slightly heavier than the female.
Pandas in captivity are renown to lose any interest in sex, making it especially difficult to breed naturally.
The babies' father is an 18-year old China-born Giant Panda called Eimei.
Nearly 12 giant pandas have been born at the Adventure World in Wakayama, making it the most productive breeding centre outside China for this endangered mammal.
There are estimated to be around 1,590 pandas still living in the wild, mostly in the mountainous regions of Sichuan, and around 210 of the endangered species living in captivity.
Reuters