Original subtitles

it has been 18 days since Lili gave birth

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for her to produce trends is not unusual half of all panda births result in them

but before both twins to survive certainly is

pandas almost always abandon one cub it's thought that they don't have

sufficient milk or energy to care for two but the team at Chengdu have hit

upon a cunning plan [Music]

[Music] by removing one cup at birth and then switching throughout the day and night

keepers are able to encourage panda mothers to feed both siblings while

being under the impression that they have only one Lele is distracted with a

bowl of honey water but is reluctant to give up her cupboard

doing this successfully requires enormous patience from the keeper and

great trust from the Panda one twin is taken to the incubator where it will

have a top-up of formula milk and switched for the other which will now

get his shares of his mother's milk the keeper will swap the twins up to ten

times a day and Lili will almost always have one cub with her

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[Music] young those technique of twin swapping

at last opens away to a possible 100 percent survival rate in newborn captive

cups [Music]