Giant Panda mating a success at The San Diego Zoo

The San Diego Zoo's female giant panda Bai Yun surprised the Zoo's Giant Panda Conservation Team by demonstrating she was ready for breeding a couple of days earlier than anticipated. The male Gao Gao and Bai Yun were allowed to mate naturally. The panda team watches for key behaviors and hormonal shifts to indicate the female is in estrus. Timing must be perfect as a female giant panda is only in estrus for two or three days a year, limiting the opportunity for conception. This giant panda pair has produced two offspring including Mei Sheng in 2003 and Su Lin in 2005. Bai Yun gave birth to her first cub in 1999 through artificial insemination. Giant pandas are critically endangered with only 1,600 left in the world.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• baby
• panda
• the
• san
• diego
• zoo
• cres
• endangered
• animals
• research
• station

[tourental]

pandas should start breeding like hell so they wouldn't be in so big danger.

[DirtyHarryGermany]

Pandas are so cute.

Thanks for the video :)

[MrVOLKNER117]

@xlaughterx1 No

[andylovsU]

ok i got to this from horse breeding and i got to that from Scream 4?....

[LionGoddess1]

at least they aren't using artificial means and they actually want to do it :P japanese just cheat to get to the end

[Toskana135]

they are so cute

[Takimaster00]

I wonder how many millions were spent just to feed and have these two pandas mate? Waste of money

[qwiggels]

@cheerscomments - from the date of the video, I think those 2 cuties were thinking about little Zhen Zhen, Yun Zi's sister who just recently left San Diego Zoo to go back to China...

[cheerscomments]

Is the Yun Zi the result of this natural mating???

[ILikeWeatherGuy]

:/ sounds like my sister laughing

[heartless1197]

@pandaH8R u r a horrible person for hoping that any creature would die how would u like it if someone wanted u to die just cause ur stupid and ignorant like u seem to be