The giant panda has an insatiable appetite for bamboo but that is not the case with its notoriously poor breeding capability.
How about a bit of panda porn, Yaa!! that’s what scientists have come up after years of painstaking research that have unleashed a baby boom among one of the world’s most beloved but endangered animals.
Will the blue movies help?
“It works,” enthuses Zhang Zhihe, a leading Chinese expert, about showing uninitiated males DVDs of fellow pandas mating. It might sound little funny but it’s the sounds of breeding that stimulate them, Zhang said. “Pandas are just like human beings. They understand everything.”
Opinions differ on the visuals, but Zhang agree on the sound track. It is one of many techniques tried over the decades to get captive pandas — notoriously poor breeders — to do it, and do it right. The efforts to understand and simulate conditions for mating and raising cubs have paid off in China, the panda’s native habitat. Now comes the next test: getting the magic to work outside China.
The big day is still to come in January, when the researchers hopes to bring off a successful mating between male Chuang Chuang and partner Lin Hui in this northern Thailand city.
Via: CNN
