Posted on 04/30/2007 2:17:53 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Pandas Shown Porn to Stimulate Sex for Reproduction
Monday, April 30 2007
Contributed by: Mills
After Thailand's most popular animal couple failed to mate, zoo officials are gearing up for plan B -- a DVD they hope will get Chuang Chuang and Lin Hui in the mood for love, CNN's Narunart Prapanya reported.
The pandas' first mating season -- a three-day window -- came last week. Despite a widely-publicized encounter between Chuang Chuang, a 6-year-old male, and 5-year-old Lin Hui, the mating apparently was unsuccessful.
Zoo administrator Prasertsak Puttrakul, who leads a team taking care of the pandas, noted they tend to live in isolation in the wild, and do not witness other pandas mating. "That's why they are bound to extinction should there be no help," he said.
Recent panda reproduction in the United States and Japan stemmed from artificial breeding, he said.
Because of that, Prasertsak has prepared a DVD of pandas having sexual intercourse to show the couple, hoping the demonstration -- call it panda porn -- will inspire them to make a love connection.
The pandas are on a 10-year loan from China to Thailand's Chieng Mai Zoo, about 700 kilometers (435 miles) north of Bangkok.
They have proved enormously popular -- in the past two years, the number of visitors to the zoo has doubled from 600,000 to 1.2 million people. Of those, three-fourths come to see the panda couple, paying an extra 50 baht ($1.50) on top of the zoo entrance fee.
The Thai government pays $250,000 a year to Wulong Panda Research Institute in China to rent Chuang Chuang -- whose name means "clever" -- and Lin Hui, whose name means "beautiful forest."
That’s TOO funny. Wish I knew how to do that.
Irellevant post, if you can’t add anything, just shut the hell up!
That's the title of a very good book on proper grammar; the title is taken from a joke involving a panda.
Alternatively, it could be a pun on the male panda's behaviour and why it doesn't result in conception.
Cheers!
Errr...I've got fifty cents.
Now lookie here, mister! Them good folks out Thailand-way is payin a good dollah-fiddy jist t’watch them 2 fancy bears goin at it. Or not goin at it, as the case may be.
*sniff*
I shall accept no less.
Tell ya what: $1, but if I like the show...I'm a big tipper, knowwhatimean?
Life imitating art.
Back when the Washington Zoo Pandas were having trouble reproducing, Dayton Daily News Editorial Cartoonist Mike Peters did a cartoon with the zoo keepers taking the Pandas to a x-rated movie.
Well now, how can I argue with logic like that?
*preen*
What can I say? I’m just a *BUUUUUURRRRRRRRP* charmer.
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves
That’s the title of a very good book on proper grammar; the title is taken from a joke involving a panda.
GRAMMAR COPS UNITE!
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