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Even Pandas Suffer From Impotence

They're cute and cuddly but sadly they pandas' aversion to sex.
can't get it up! Yes, Virginia, even "Barely a quarter of adult pandas in
pandas suffer from impotence and nothing captivity are breeding, and the few that
it seems can help these furry animals do are not contributing to the survival
mate. Not even Viagra! of their wild relatives," added BBC News
This was reported by Chinese officials environment correspondent Alex Kirby.
who said that the creature's innate In the 1990s, authorities experimented
modesty may prove to be its undoing. with Chinese medicine to boost the
Authorities are alarmed that the shy pandas' dwindling sex drive. Zhang Hemin,
pandas may soon be extinct unless they director of the Wolong Nature Reserve in
have sex soon. the central province of Sichuan, said the
For years, scientists have struggled to herbal medicine worked but it also made
boost the dwindling panda population that the males hot-tempered that the
now numbers less than a thousand. experiment had to be discontinued.
Poaching and loss of habitat have greatly Scientists then turned to the
reduced the number of pandas worldwide. anti-impotence drug Viagra, hoping it
The few that inhabit China face would have the same effect in pandas.
extinction due to their celibate nature. Pandas normally mate for about 30 seconds
"Pandas, which have relatively low and Viagra could reportedly extend that
fertility rates even in the wild, lose to 20 minutes.
virtually all interest in sex once they Unfortunately, that didn't work either.
are in captivity," according to BBC News. Sixteen-year-old male panda Zhuang Zhuang
Researchers are at a loss to explain this (Chinese for "Strong Strong") took the
strange behavior. Some say captivity drug but nothing happened. Wang Pengyan,
prevents them from indulging in elaborate deputy director of the reserve, said he
mating rituals. Others believe they are had no intention of giving Viagra to
not interested in mating with partners other pandas although others believe
chosen for them. Still, others say all Zhuang Zhuang wasn't a good candidate.
they want is a little privacy and the "You can't say Viagra has no results on
attention they're getting from the public pandas. We used the wrong panda. That
is not good for them. panda basically has no capability," said
"Who would want to mate in front of an Guo Feng, a scientific researcher at
audience?" asked Sally Nicholson of the Wolong.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on captive




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