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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Pugnate on Saturday, November 25, 2006, 05:19:30 PM
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linky (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2089577.html?menu=)
Panda porn pays off
Scientists say a bid to encourage giant pandas to breed by showing them 'panda porn' has paid off.
They claim to have sparked a baby boom among the endangered animals by showing them DVDs of pandas mating.
"It works," Zhang Zhihe, a leading Chinese expert, told the Xinhua news agency.
Pandas are notoriously poor breeders and the 'panda porn' movies were just one of many techniques used to encourage them to breed.
In the first 10 months of this year 31 cubs were born in captivity in China and 28 survived, said Zhang.
That's an increase from 12 births in 2005 and just nine in 2000. Of this year's births, 14 came through natural breeding, while artificial insemination or a combination of the two produced the rest.
Now comes the next test - getting the trick to work outside China.
The day of reckoning will come in January, when Prasertsak Buntragulpoontawee hopes male Chuang Chuang and partner Lin Hui will mate in Thailand.
"It is the same idea as chimpanzees seeing people smoke and then copying it," says the Thai researcher.
I bet Que is thinking,"Why aren't goats endangered?"
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Nope. Now I'm just thinking of switching to pandas! Mmm... endangered animal sex.
But seriously... this seems weird, and I'm not so sure they provided much evidence to show it's such a great success. Okay... 12 births in 2005, nine in 2000... what about 2001 - 2004, not to mention the ah... lots and lots of time that came before that. Maybe at least give us an average birthrate in there somewhere? I dunno'.
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Seems very weird.
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Oh yeah, I read about this a few years ago. Interesting to see the results. I guess that's why I saw that one panda dressed up in a schoolgirl uniform.
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What's with these pandas and not wanting to do it anyways?
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Because their children scare them a lot.
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=8922875251875301807&q=panda
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Because their children scare them a lot.
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=8922875251875301807&q=panda
Oh man, that was adorable!! :P
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Haha... that was hilarious.
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When I saw an article on this in the Cincinnati Enquirer (from the AP wire), I died laughing. Jennie and I have this comedian we love called Mike Birbiglia. He was just on Conan O'Brien the other night. He does this joke about this very subject, which we first heard like two years ago. He'd heard about the Panda porn and basically made a joke about it.
So when we saw the article we both thought of the joke and died laughing.