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Scamming the Horny Panda: One trick that zookeepers have used to get male pandas interested in mating with dowdier females (according to a December dispatch from Sichuan, China, in Australia's The Age) is to let an attractive female roam around a pen, leaving her scent, and then, in darkness, with the male in the pen and frisky at the scent, to introduce the less attractive female into the pen, back-end first, so that the pre-excited male will quickly begin copulating. Said zookeeper Zhang Hemin, "When the males find out (that they've just mated with unintended partners), they get very angry and start fighting the female. We have had to use firecrackers and a water hose to separate them." [The Age (Melbourne), 12-17-06]
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Posted 19 January 2007 - 03:27 PM
OMFG.
I want to write a tune based on this article.
I want to write a tune based on this article.
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Posted 19 January 2007 - 03:40 PM
They do weird things to pandas. I had to translate an article from a French magazine for my class, and when I was translating it I figured I was doing something wrong, because it was fucking weird, but when I showed it to my teacher I was correct...
Basically, because pandas have been in zoos for so long, they don't remember how to mate. So they videotape pandas having sex and show it to them, and show them movies on how to take care of their babies. When the females have babies they take them away and give them a stuffed panda filled with the urine of their live baby, and show them the videos in sessions, until the panda starts to treat the stuffed panda like it's their baby. Then they give the panda their real baby and everyone's happy.
Basically, because pandas have been in zoos for so long, they don't remember how to mate. So they videotape pandas having sex and show it to them, and show them movies on how to take care of their babies. When the females have babies they take them away and give them a stuffed panda filled with the urine of their live baby, and show them the videos in sessions, until the panda starts to treat the stuffed panda like it's their baby. Then they give the panda their real baby and everyone's happy.
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Posted 19 January 2007 - 03:46 PM
QUOTE(Karim @ Jan 19 2007, 05:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
lmao. Pandas are fucked.
so we're trying to save them from extinction.....why???
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Posted 19 January 2007 - 03:50 PM
QUOTE(nisa @ Jan 19 2007, 04:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
They do weird things to pandas. I had to translate an article from a French magazine for my class, and when I was translating it I figured I was doing something wrong, because it was fucking weird, but when I showed it to my teacher I was correct...
Basically, because pandas have been in zoos for so long, they don't remember how to mate. So they videotape pandas having sex and show it to them, and show them movies on how to take care of their babies. When the females have babies they take them away and give them a stuffed panda filled with the urine of their live baby, and show them the videos in sessions, until the panda starts to treat the stuffed panda like it's their baby. Then they give the panda their real baby and everyone's happy.
Basically, because pandas have been in zoos for so long, they don't remember how to mate. So they videotape pandas having sex and show it to them, and show them movies on how to take care of their babies. When the females have babies they take them away and give them a stuffed panda filled with the urine of their live baby, and show them the videos in sessions, until the panda starts to treat the stuffed panda like it's their baby. Then they give the panda their real baby and everyone's happy.
LOL at pandas watching movies on how to be pandas.
I can see why you would have thought you had translated wrong! haha
But really, pandas are a lot crazier than anyone could have imagined.
I mean I thought all pandas pretty much looked the same.
QUOTE(spotpea @ Jan 19 2007, 04:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
so we're trying to save them from extinction.....why???
Because.. they have that nifty coloration pattern. duh.
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Posted 19 January 2007 - 04:00 PM
QUOTE(spotpea @ Jan 19 2007, 02:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
so we're trying to save them from extinction.....why???
Because....
They look like that.
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Posted 19 January 2007 - 05:05 PM
Pandas and bears are the fucking best.
Period.
I want to be a bear, damn it. Not just look like one.
Period.
I want to be a bear, damn it. Not just look like one.
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Posted 19 January 2007 - 05:35 PM
QUOTE(Karim @ Jan 20 2007, 12:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
This is going to sound like a joke, but that one on the right looks really smart.
lmao at the non-joke though
Don't really know much about pandas, but they look like an awesome species. Eating bamboo all day..
I read an article this week that some panda in a zoo was getting too fat so that he couldn't mate anymore, so they had to put him on a diet.
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