Hong Kong pandas celebrate birthdays

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Hong Kong's Ocean Park Resort held a birthday party for two giant pandas, Ying Ying and Le Le. They both turned four and keepers have high hopes they will soon begin breeding.

With names meaning "abundance" and "happiness," the pair were treated to a birthday cake made of ice in their new enclosure. The new home comes complete with snow, a waterfall, and a river.

The male and female pandas were born in August 2005 at China's Panda Conservation center in Wolong, Sichuan province. The pandas were flown to the Special Administrative Region two years ago to mark the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland.