BEIJING, China (AP) -- American-born panda Hua Mei is pregnant, just months after she settled into her new home in southwestern China, state newspapers reported Wednesday.
The 4-year-old panda, whose name means "China-America," was the first foreign-born panda to return to its ancestral homeland. She arrived in February from the San Diego Zoo, where she was born to two pandas on loan from China.
Chinese veterinarians, concerned that she had little knowledge of sex after living only in captivity, showed her videos of mating pandas to prepare her for a series of "blind dates."
That education appears to have paid off. Hua Mei became pregnant by natural means and is due in September, the Beijing Morning Post reported, citing researchers at the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Center in southwestern China.
China has poured considerable resources into protecting the giant panda, its unofficial mascot. While China's panda population has risen, the animal remains endangered by heavy logging of its habitats. Also, groups of pandas live far from each other, making breeding difficult.
The government said last week that the number of pandas in the wild in China has jumped by more than 40 percent to 1,590. The World Wildlife Fund cautioned that the spike may be attributable to more reliable surveying methods and not necessarily to a real increase in pandas.
Hmmm, in all seriousness, maybe this could be used to get other panda's to do the wild and funky and increase thier population.
I've been asked why I still follow a few of the people I know on Facebook with 'interesting political habits and view points'.
It's so when they comment on or approve of something, I know what pages to block/what not to vote for.
jenat-lai wrote:Well, a horny panda does have more chance of making babies than a fundie one
Yeah, since fundie ones tend to close themselves up in monasteries and not masturbate till hysteria takes hold of their minds and they start rambling and praying for release, ANY release...
Not to mention that monasteries always seem to have a strange overabundance of kittens...
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jenat-lai wrote:Well, a horny panda does have more chance of making babies than a fundie one
Yeah, since fundie ones tend to close themselves up in monasteries and not masturbate till hysteria takes hold of their minds and they start rambling and praying for release, ANY release...
Not to mention that monasteries always seem to have a strange overabundance of kittens...
I'm sitting on the grounds of a monastery as I type this. I see no kittens.
jenat-lai wrote:Well, a horny panda does have more chance of making babies than a fundie one
Yeah, since fundie ones tend to close themselves up in monasteries and not masturbate till hysteria takes hold of their minds and they start rambling and praying for release, ANY release...
Not to mention that monasteries always seem to have a strange overabundance of kittens...
I'm sitting on the grounds of a monastery as I type this. I see no kittens.
OMIGOD, YOU ATE THEM, DIDN"T YOU?
"It's not evil for God to do it. Or for someone to do it at God's command."- Jonathan Boyd on baby-killing
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
Oh, and to clear up any possible doubts, no I'm not a monk. I just work for 'em. Vows of poverty and all, you know. The need to get rid of the money makes for excellent pay rates.
Xenophobe3691 wrote:
Yeah, since fundie ones tend to close themselves up in monasteries and not masturbate till hysteria takes hold of their minds and they start rambling and praying for release, ANY release...
Not to mention that monasteries always seem to have a strange overabundance of kittens...
I'm sitting on the grounds of a monastery as I type this. I see no kittens.
Cool. I'm all for increasing the panda population.
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