Blackpool Zoo welcomes rare panda cubs after 10-year wait - and they're adorable

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Get the M.E.N.'s Manchester Family newsletter for all the latest from back to school news to ways to entertain the kids Blackpool Zoo has welcomed a pair of rare cubs - the first babies of their kind to arrive at the site after more than a decade.

Two adorable red pandas - a boy and a girl - were born on Friday, June 18, it has been announced today. Their parents, mum Alina and dad Tao Tao, have been left to care for their young naturally. READ MORE: Manchester Christmas Markets WILL go ahead this year The long-awaited births left the zookeepers overjoyed as there are only 10,000 red pandas left in the wild, resulting in them being classified as endangered.