Botch. Posted March 17, 2004 Share Posted March 17, 2004 Sorry, but I've been chuckling about this all day: Vets give panda crash course in sex ed Tuesday, March 16, 2004 Posted: 12:55 PM EST (1755 GMT) Hua Mei was born in 1999 to two giant pandas on loan from China at the San Diego Zoo. BEIJING, China (AP) -- Chinese veterinarians have begun showing American-born panda Hua Mei sex-education videos featuring pandas mating to prepare her for "blind dates" with Chinese suitors, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday. The 4-year-old animal, whose name means "China-America," arrived in China from San Diego in February. Now that her month of quarantine is complete, officials are hoping she will quickly mate with a panda at her new home, the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Research Center in southwestern China. "We hope she can get pregnant by the end of March. But first of all, she should have some sexual education," said Wei Rongping, assistant director of the research center, quoted by Xinhua. Because Hua Mei has been in captivity since she was born, she has not had the chance to observe the natural course of panda reproduction in the wild. So officials have shown her videos of mating pandas and taken her to see other pandas copulating, according to the report. The report said that similar sex education courses given to other pandas in the center had resulted in natural matings. Hua Mei has been assigned four prospective mates, including 15-year-old Zhuang Zhuang, 11-year-old Xi Meng, 12-year-old Da Di and 10-year-old Di Di, the report said. "I do not know which of them will be lucky enough to mate our princess," Wei said. "It's all up to Hua Mei to find her own Mr. Right." Maybe they should dress her in a "teddy"... Har! Botch "Eccentric language often is symptomatic of peculiar thinking" - George Will www.puddlestone.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted March 17, 2004 Share Posted March 17, 2004 Originally posted by Botch.: Maybe they should dress her in a "teddy"... Har! ba-DUM CHING! "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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