With predictions that Lun Lun NameLun Lun Other NamesHua Hua Chinese Names伦伦 Stud Number452 Date of Birth1997-Aug-25 SexFemale Current LocationZoo Atlanta Born atChengdu Zoological Garden MotherBing Bing - #314 FatherLIn Nan - #298 , Zoo Atlanta's female giant panda, could give birth in a week to 10 days, the zoo's panda watch team is preparing for twins.

The connection between Atlanta and China is more than just the interest in the Olympics. Zoo Atlanta and the panda research center in Chengdu have long been working closely together to ensure the survival of the giant panda.

Just last week, the Chengdu Center's foremost expert in the care of twin panda cubs arrived at Zoo Atlanta.

"We've got three cameras in the den with her, currently," said Zoo Atlanta panda keeper Kate Roca. "It allows us to see what she's doing from all angles."

The overnight panda watch shift for Kate Roca is just about over. She was on panda watch two years ago when Mei Lan was born. And while possibly pregnant Lun Lun NameLun Lun Other NamesHua Hua Chinese Names伦伦 Stud Number452 Date of Birth1997-Aug-25 SexFemale Current LocationZoo Atlanta Born atChengdu Zoological Garden MotherBing Bing - #314 FatherLIn Nan - #298 is now sleeping 90 percent of the time, Kate stays focused.

"I wouldn't have asked to do this if it wasn't the thrill of the job," she said.

This time, Kate and the Zoo Atlanta panda watch team are seconded by Yang Kway Shing -- an expert in twin panda births from the Chengdu Panda Center.

At Zoo Atlanta's panda nursery, you will notice there are two incubators. That's because historically in about half of the panda births, the mom gives birth to twins. This year about 80 percent of the panda births have been twins.

Zoo Atlanta has been put on notice by their partners in China to be ready for twins.

"Usually the mom rejects one of the two twins," said Zoo Atlanta president and CEO, Dennis Kelly. "That's very normal in nature. She doesn't have enough energy to take care of twins. But with the Chinese we've come up with a scheme that saves the twin, the rejected twin, almost all the time."

Yang Kway Shing will execute that scheme.

"Right after the second cub birth, we will pull the second cub," Yang said through an interpreter. "We'll put the cub into the incubator and then if it's possible we'll try to swap the cub."

The idea is to give both cubs the nurturing and natural nutrition only a mother can give. And this all depends on whether Lun Lun NameLun Lun Other NamesHua Hua Chinese Names伦伦 Stud Number452 Date of Birth1997-Aug-25 SexFemale Current LocationZoo Atlanta Born atChengdu Zoological Garden MotherBing Bing - #314 FatherLIn Nan - #298 is actually pregnant. Up to the moment of birth, not even a sonogram can tell whether the pregnancy is real or pseudo.

Zoo Atlanta would have room for everybody even if Lun Lun NameLun Lun Other NamesHua Hua Chinese Names伦伦 Stud Number452 Date of Birth1997-Aug-25 SexFemale Current LocationZoo Atlanta Born atChengdu Zoological Garden MotherBing Bing - #314 FatherLIn Nan - #298 gives birth to twins. But Mei Lan is due to return to China in about a year. Zoo officials think if it does happen, it'll happen in less than two weeks. And if it does, Kate Roca is hoping that's when she's manning the cameras.