Happy Birthday! Atlanta Zoo’s Giant Panda Twins Turn 1

Atlanta Zoo’s twin giant pandas celebrated their first birthday over the weekend. The zoo is offering some admission and concession specials in honor of the event through Monday.

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Atlanta’s zoo is celebrating the first birthday of the only giant panda twins in the United States.

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Zoo Atlanta offered a holiday weekend full of surprises to celebrate the first birthday of Ya Lun (yah-loon) and Xi Lun (shee-loon), which was Sunday.



The twins enjoyed ice cake creations made especially for them, and visitors crafted birthday greetings for them Sunday.

The zoo will also offer some admission and concession specials in honor of the panda twins’ birthday through Monday.

Ya Lun and Xi Lun were born 47 minutes apart on Sept. 3, 2016. They were the sixth and seventh cubs born to 20-year-old mother Lun Lun and 19-year-old father Yang Yang.

The twins’ names together mean “Lun Lun’s elegant and happy daughters.”