Posted on 01/17/2007 10:10:22 AM PST by Vote 4 Nixon
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP)—Chuang Chuang the Panda is just too heavy to have sex. Thai authorities have put him on a strict diet as part of a long-running campaign to get him to mate with female partner Lin Hui at the Chiang Mai Zoo in northern Thailand. —Chuang Chuang is gaining weight too fast and we found Lin Hui is no longer comfortable with having sex with him,'' said the zoo's chief veterinarian, Kanika Limtrakul, adding that Chuang Chuang weighed 331 pounds while Lin Hui is only 253 pounds.
As a result, zoo authorities are cutting out bamboo shoots in the daily meal for Chuang Chuang and giving the obese bear only bamboo leaves, Kanika said.
The diet plan is the latest in an unsuccessful and often strange campaign by zoo officials to get the two bears to mate.
They have held a mock wedding, announced plans to separate the two to spark a little romance and even talked of introducing panda porn—videos of other pandas mating—to get the pair in the mood.
Thailand rented Chuang Chuang and Lin Hui from China for $250,000 in October 2003 for 10 years. They are expected to generate millions of dollars in revenues from Thai and foreign tourists.
There are as few as 1,600 giant pandas in the mountain forests of central China, according to the zoo. An additional 120 are in Chinese breeding facilities and zoos, and about 20 live in zoos outside China.
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Does this bamboo make me look fat?.............
I think this female panda probably got the idea of using that excuse from my wife.
If only Rosie were a panda........
Great! I finally find a man and now THIS!!
See, there are always more important problems than ours....
I just came back from Blockbuster's and their entire section of Panda porn had already been rented!
I told you they needed more panda porn didn't I? I should be in marketing, instead of just going to the market.
Maybe we can market low fat bamboo.
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