Tokyo zoo's bashful pandas try for a baby

Stop wasting your time. Pandas don't fancy pro-creation. If you want baby Pandas, squeeze the seed out of one and plant it into the other artificially. Less hassle for everybody.

In Japan, where even the pandas are herbivores ; )

Giant pandas are notoriously clumsy at mating, with males said to be bad at determining when a female is in the right frame of mind and often befuddled at knowing what to do next.

Not only pandas, I assure you.

“It’s true the females are picky,” the zoo spokesman said. “In their natural habitat, they get to select the male.”

Again, not only pandas.

Nice one, Alistair! Have a click.

Why, thank you Tessa .

Giant pandas are notoriously clumsy at mating, with males said to be bad at determining when a female is in the right frame of mind and often befuddled at knowing what to do next.

Hmmm. Somehow it's always the male's fault.

Let them meet the Panda from Wakayama Zoo, they have had multiple offsprings already.

Let them meet the Panda from Wakayama Zoo, they have had multiple offsprings already.

I've been to Wakayama, and let's just say that there's not an awful lot else to do there. If you know what I mean.

The pleasure's all mine, Alistair!

The headline makes it sound as though the pandas sat down and talked about it and then decided to go for it.