Giant Pandas Fail to Mate
Sometimes getting a bid off for the village hall extension, planning a successful event or selling your brilliant idea to colleagues at the Parish Council can be full of the sort of expectation and ultimate disappointment so evocatively described by the latest outcome of this panda love story….
“It had started so well: the panda cams were switched off, the doors carefully locked to outsiders and the love tunnel opened. But in the end, despite their repeated five minute bouts of foreplay and coupling in the female’s enclosure, Tang Tang and Yang Guang will have to wait another year.
It may have been the weight of expectation. Perhaps the love tunnel was too short. Whatever the reason, the very short window of opportunity for Edinburgh’s pandas closed during Wednesday afternoon.
A female’s fertility soars sharply, peaks within a matter of hours but within less than a day and a half, the moment is over.”