But Mr Davison admitted to a "rather anxious" drive to Derriford when his wife and first-time mother went into labour five days early.

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She came from the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas, where she was born Jan. 29 to a first-time mother who showed little maternal instinct.

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Mr Aris had arrived in Rangoon on 23 November and seen his 65-year-old mother for the first time in a decade.

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The 1-month-old twins, a boy and a girl, visited their mother for the first time at the hospital on Wednesday, the statement said.

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