From News of the Weird...

Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - Scamming the Poor Horny Panda: Australia’s The Age, in a dispatch from Sichuan, China, reports that pandas are procreatively thriving now, thanks to wildlife people’s having outsmarted them. It has already been reported that they used mating videos ("panda porn") to show the bears how, and perhaps unwisely tried giving the males Viagra, but The Age is talking real scam: How do you get males to mate with the dowdier females?

The "trick" is to put a fertile and attractive female into a breeding pen, where she leaves scratchmarks and droppings capable of exciting a male. But, at the last moment, the females are swapped. The zookeepers introduce a new, less popular [female] who has been scented with the urine of the more attractive animals. She is introduced into the mating pen rear end first, so the male cannot see the face of his partner until they have finished copulating.

"When the males find out, they get very angry and start fighting the female," Mr. Zhang [Hemin] says. "We have had to use firecrackers and a water hose to separate them."

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Just how we feel when a different person show up for a session.