Chiang Mai Panda Too Fat To Have Sex

[george]

Panda too fat to have sex

CHIANG MAI: -- 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.

Pandas are threatened by loss of habitat, poaching and a low reproduction rate. Females in the wild normally have a cub once every two to three years.

--Agencies 2007-01-19

[johnb]

I know the feeling................

[Briggsy]

See the other thread which I can't find at the moment.

Don't bother with cutting out the bamboo shoots. Try cutting out the Oreos!

[Neeranam]

I know the feeling too..... 'er indoors is in her 9th month.

[LaoPo]

2006: Another Record for Panda Births

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPan.../babyboom06.cfm

LaoPo

[macb]

I know the feeling too..... 'er indoors is in her 9th month.

Same here mate overdue

[macb]

We were up in Chang-Mai in January last year and saw the Pandas, they do look healthy and both eating well

'Eats shoots and leaves'

[Dupont]

We too went to see the Pandas. The monitor outside showed them walking round playfully, yet when we got in, the were asleep on a log.

The highlight was when one of them had a poo whilst still sleeping and the crowd giggled and pointed as the poo bounced and rolled down the floor.

Outside again an hour or so later, I checked the monitor and they were walking round! The guy at the entrance said it was live footage.

[kmart]

Seems like the Giant Panda should have been earmarked for extinction eons ago. It only eats bamboo, and needs about 15 hectares a day to get any nourishment. It has a very low sex-drive. Oh, and it lives in China, where they eat anything and everything.

I think it lives on just because of the "eats shoots and leaves" joke?

[Donnyboy]

Seems like the Giant Panda should have been earmarked for extinction eons ago. It only eats bamboo, and needs about 15 hectares a day to get any nourishment. It has a very low sex-drive. Oh, and it lives in China, where they eat anything and everything.

I think it lives on just because of the "eats shoots and leaves" joke?

the low sex drive is possibly due to the lack of panda porn available.

[mads]

Maybe they should do some study on the "farang/bar girl" environment . It seems to me many of the bargirls don't mind

a slightly overweight male. Just a thought

[Meerkat]

Maybe they should do some study on the "farang/bar girl" environment . It seems to me many of the bargirls don't mind

a slightly overweight male. Just a thought

Precisely:

Overweight.

Mostly ghostly white, but with a dodgy tan.

Black eyes.

Can't string two intelligible words together.

Needs a shave. Everywhere.

Nobody's ever seen his wallet.

Eats, shoots and leaves, (with apologies to Lynne Truss).

Belongs in PaNananda Plaza.

[Mlady]

I wish Thai authorities would start a programme to help me have regular sex......

[Payboy]

I wish Thai authorities would start a programme to help me have regular sex......

for that you would need to enrol at baan kwang