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Why don’t pandas have more sex?

It’s true. Male pandas have very teensy winkies so minute that over the years many humans trained in the ways of sexing bears have mistaken boy pandas for girl pandas. Female pandas have a reproductive window so fleeting – just

Henry 23 March 201726 August 2020 Conservation, Evolution, Pandas, Zoology Read more

Tian Tian, maybe definitely not

It is now virtually certain that Tian Tian, the female giant panda at Edinburgh Zoo, is no longer pregnant. Following artificial insemination in April, the zoo has been tracking Tian Tian’s hormone levels. The one to watch is progesterone. At

Henry 9 September 201326 August 2020 Conservation, Pandas, Zoology Read more

A black and white Christmas

captive panda, china

“The pandas are coming!” announced Edinburgh Zoo’s press office on Monday morning. The reason, I discovered, was not to proclaim the transfer of seminal fluid from male to female panda (cause for celebration as that might be), but because the

Henry 2 December 201126 August 2020 Conservation, Pandas, Zoology Read more
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