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Saturday, 10 February 2007, 15:44 GMT
In pictures: Panda cub playground
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Eighteen panda cubs living in China's Wolong Nature Reserve have been named at a ceremony in Sichuan province.
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Names for the five to seven-month-old cubs were chosen from about 30,000 entries submitted by the public after an appeal for ideas.
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Tao Tao (playful in Mandarin) and Huan Huan (happiness) were amongst the most popular. The panda above was named Fu Wa after Beijing's Olympic mascot.
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Panda cubs play with their keepers at a breeding centre
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Workers at the nature reserve aided a record number of births last year in a mini baby panda boom.
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After the ceremony, the cubs left their mothers for the first time to stay in a panda "kindergarten".
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The move is to help the pandas adapt to the humidity and group living. They will be resident until they are a year old.
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The giant panda is one of the world's most endangered species and is native only to China.
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About 1,600 wild pandas live in nature reserves in Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces and 217 are kept in captivity.
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