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Panda Porn: "It works," Say Researchers


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I found this pretty amusing, so i was compelled to post it.

 

"-- After years of painstaking research, scientists say they have unleashed a baby boom among one of the world's most beloved but endangered animals, China's giant panda.

 

A bit of panda porn has helped too, they say.

 

"It works," enthuses Zhang Zhihe, a leading Chinese expert, about showing uninitiated males DVDs of fellow pandas mating.

 

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.

 

"At first people thought that you just put two animals together and they would figure it out. But it didn't turn out that way," she said. "Now we know how to take care of the panda better. We've really made progress. But we're still learning a lot of even basic things."

 

Captive animals used to lack proper socialization; with no companions around, when the male and female met for breeding "they just freaked out and fought," Howard said. Now enclosures are bigger and contain more animals.

 

There's also a push to keep cubs with their mothers longer, for up to two years, to give them more natural sex education.

 

Scientists have also learned more about sex and aggression. In the wild, Howard explains, females in heat will climb a tree while suitors below fight for her. In captivity, with no male rivals around, pandas often take out their aggression on the female."

 

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Who said porn never helps anyone? :D

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Wait a minute! Panda porn was intended for other pandas!?!?!

 

Oh god what have i done....

 

you may have just created a new subspecies of human and pandas without your knowledge who seek revenge for being created and erasing all human and pandarian life forms... or something of that sort. but also maybe not. so meh, who cares.::shrug:

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