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To: Pullin-GS who wrote ()	6/6/1997 8:51:00 AM
From: Pullin-GS	of 5244

Panda sexuality in the news AGAIN!.... Segments pulled from the #1 panda program: "As the World Turns in the Panda Den..." China claims progress in the fight to convince its famously frigid female pandas that sex really is more fun than munching fresh bamboo shoots. Scientists found that hormone supplements can cause sexual excitement in female pandas that normally look upon males with little more than contempt, a discovery that could help save the endangered species,the official Xinhua news agency said. "Most female giant pandas cannot enter into periods of sexual excitement easily or at least not obviously so during the mating season," it quoted Professor Chen Dayuan of the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as saying. Only 10 percent of giant pandas can mate naturally and their lack of fecundity is the main reason for their endangered status, Xinhua said. Good Ol' Gonadotropins Scientists found that gonadotropins, hormones that support the growth of reproductive cells, determine sexual excitement in female pandas. To find the problem, the research group experimented with giving supplemental hormones to the female giant panda, so as to stimulate her into a period of sexual excitement and help her to produce eggs. "When the female giant panda produces a sufficient secretion of gonadotropins, she will attain a state of sexual excitement; when inadequate, she will show indifference to the male even in the mating season," it quoted Chen as saying. Supplemental hormones helped pandas get pregnant and give birth as long ago as 1989.

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