Panda porn fails to excite animal’s listless libido
Authorities at the Chiang Mai Zoo in northern Thailand hope it will encourage him to mate with his partner, Lin Hui, and serve as an instructional lesson in how to do it right.
So far, it’s been a tough sell, according to the zoo’s chief veterinarian, Kanika Limtrakul.
“Chuang Chuang seems indifferent to the videos, he has no reaction to what he’s seeing on TV. But, we’re continuing to show him videos and hoping they will leave an impression.”
Every day for the past week, Chuang Chuang has been taken from his outdoor environment of rocks and trees to an indoor cage set up in front of a television.
Animal experts then put on a DVD that shows pandas mating. At first, they kept the sound off but noticed the images alone were not grabbing Chuang Chuang’s attention, so they turned the volume up, said Prasertsak Buntrakoonpoontawee, head of the zoo’s panda project.
“Before he might have been clumsy and not known how to approach and react to a female panda. Now he will remember and imitate the video,” Prasertsak said.
