China Sends Panda Expert to Taiwan to Aid Breeding

This article was published on November 8, 2009. A panda expert send by China to Taiwan to encourage mating by a pair of pandas. After inspecting the pandas at the Taipei Zoo on Sunday Zhang Hemin, the panda expert suggested a month or two separation between the two pandas might increased the feeling of attraction which will result in reproduction. Zhang suggested to the zoo that they set up wooden racks for the male panda so he can climb and strengthen his hind legs for the mating process. This is important because the pandas are threatened by a low reproduction rate and only about 1,600 pandas live in the wild. 120 pandas are in Chinese breeding facilities and zoos, and around 20 pandas live in zoos outside China.

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