Lenni and Lottie, giant panda twins, celebrated their first birthday at Zoo Berlin, Germany today | Images from Reuters
The twins celebrated with a large ‘1’ cut-out and toys and were joined by their mother Meng Meng
Last year the zoo announced that two new panda cubs were born to Meng Meng and father Jiao Qing
They were also given Chinese names: Meng Hao (beautiful dreams) and Meng Tian (sweet dreams). German media even reported about the cubs opening their eyes
Meng Meng had already given birth to another pair of twins, Pit and Paule who have now returned to China
Lennie and Lottie are only the third and fourth panda to have ever be born in Germany
China loans pandas to zoos around the world in what's called ‘panda diplomacy’
China is trying to bolster the numbers of the endangered species. About 650 giant pandas live in zoos and enclosures and only about 1,800 are found in the wild