長隆野生動物園大熊貓產下三胞胎

It was a big news day in the panda world.

近日，大熊貓世界頻頻傳出好消息。

Guangzhou's Chimelong Safari Park announced Tuesday that a set of panda triplets was born late last month, the same day that the Edinburgh Zoo announced that one of its pandas is believed to be pregnant.

廣州長隆野生動物世界週二宣佈，上個月底一隻雌性大熊貓在該園產下三胞胎。同一天，愛丁堡動物園(Edinburgh Zoo)稱，該園的一隻大熊貓據信懷孕了。

The panda cubs, born on July 29 in southern China's Guangzhou to a mother called Juxiao, are the world's only panda triplets currently in existence, the safari park said, as triplets have a very low survival rate. The park called their birth a 'miracle,' citing advances in panda breeding technology.

長隆野生動物世界稱，此次出生的三胞胎是世界上目前存活的僅有的大熊貓三胞胎，因爲大熊貓三胞胎的存活率很低。它們是7月29日在廣州出生的，媽媽名叫菊笑。該園稱，它們的出生是一個奇蹟，稱這要歸功於大熊貓繁育技術的進步。

The hoopla surrounding the panda cubs comes because the animals, notoriously uninterested in sex and famously choosy about mates, only have a window of several days to conceive each year. As of 2004, there were only about 1,600 pandas believed to be left in the wild.

大熊貓三胞胎的誕生引發了轟動，這是因爲大熊貓對性非常不感興趣，對配偶非常挑剔，每年只有幾天的時間適合受孕。截至2004年，野生大熊貓據信只有大約1,600只。

Of course, the triplets aren't out of the woods yet. According to the Associated Press, 26% of male panda cubs and 20% of females die within their first year.

當然，三胞胎尚未度過危險期。據美聯社(Associated Press)報道，有26%的雄性大熊貓幼崽和20%的雌性幼崽在出生後一年內死亡。

According to the San Diego Zoo, panda cubs usually open their eyes at around 50 to 60 days and begin crawling by about 10 weeks. The zoo also notes that sometimes pandas can become pregnant with more than one cub but only give birth to one, as their bodies reabsorb the other embryos.

據聖迭戈動物園(San Diego Zoo)說，大熊貓幼崽通常在出生50至60天后睜眼，大約10周後開始爬。該動物園還指出，有時候大熊貓可能懷多胎，但只會生一個，因爲它們的身體會吸收其他胚胎。