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Madrid Zoo in Spain showed a couple of six-month-old giant panda twins born by the Chinese giant panda Hua Zuiba, which literarily means colorful mouth, in September 2010. Visitors will soon see the cubs at the outdoor recreation, instead of only watching the adorable creatures in the panda house.The giant panda cubs, both male, are the first Chinese giant panda twins ever born through artificial insemination outside China. They are super animal stars in Spain, even the Spanish Queen once fed them in the zoo.The giant panda twins were named through voting by children both in China and Spain. One of them is named Po which is the same with the famous cartoon stars name in Kung Fu Panda; another is named De De, which is the pronunciation of a Chinese character from Madrid in Mandarin, introduced a staff member from the zoo.So far the giant pandas twins are about 10 kilograms in weight and eat mixed dairy every day. They will be ready to meet visitors at the outdoor recreation when the temperature of Madrid stabilizes at 15 degrees Celsius.Giant panda Zhu Lin or Bamboo Grove was the first cub that was born through artificial insemination in Europe in the early 1980s. It had lived in Spain for 13 years. A bronze sculpture is situated beside the panda house in the zoon in its memory.A pair of giant pandas left their southwest China home for Madrid in 2007, where they will stay for ten years as a goodwill gesture promised during a visit by Spanish King Juan Carlos to Beijing earlier that year. The super animal stars attract more than one million visitors every year.
