12-19-2006, 10:13 AM
Quote:Viagra, pornography, partner-swapping, artificial tongues and electrified rectal probes. No, they are not the ingredients for a new series of Sex And The City; they are the hard-core husbandry techniques behind a massive boom in the captive giant panda population.
The world's most famous endangered species is making a comeback. After a record 31 births in zoos and research centres this year, Chinese scientists say they have developed a near-100 per cent success rate for breeding the animals.
The population in the wild has stabilised at just over 1500 and their habitat - one of the most important centres of biodiversity in the world - has been given a new and expanded guarantee of protection by the government...
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