Giant panda cubs at Tokyo zoo given names ahead of public debut

They each weigh about 13.2lb — nearly 50 times their weight at birth — and are about 2ft long, according to the zoo

Picture: Tokyo Zoological Park Society via AP

Giant panda twins born at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo in June have been given their names, chosen from hundreds of thousands of suggestions from fans around Japan.

The female cub is Lei Lei and her brother is Xiao Xiao.