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เมื่อเช้าได้ยินไม่ถนัดเรื่องเอาข่าวผสมเทียมแพนด้าที่ไทเปมาอ้างเข้าข้างตัวเองว่าอย่างไร
แต่จะบอกว่าเราไปไทเปเมื่อเดือนที่แล้ว ได้คุยกับเจ้าหน้าที่ที่นั่นเรื่องแพนด้าน้อย เขาไม่ได้กระเหี้ยนกระหือที่จะผสมเหมือนบ้านเราเลยค่ะ เขารักหมีของเขามาก มีหรือไม่มีแพนด้าน้อยไม่ใช่เรื่องสำคัญของเขาเลย
ตอนนี้ไทเปประกาศยกเลิกการผสมเทียมแล้วนะคะ และจะเปิดให้เข้าชมแพนด้าได้ตั้งแต่ว้นพรุ่งนี้ เขารอผลการผสมธรรมชาติที่เกิดขึ้น ติดก็ติดไม่ติดเขาก็รอปีหน้าได้ค่ะ
Tuan Tuan, Yuan Yuan pass up mating window By Mo Yan-chih / Staff Reporter
Giant pandas Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan play together and engage in mating behavior yesterday at the Taipei Zoo. Zoo officials said they had stopped their artificial insemination program for the pair because the estrus cycle had come to an end. Photo Courtesy of Taipei Zoo The Taipei Zoo stopped the artificial insemination program for its two giant pandas Tuan Tuan (團團) and Yuan Yuan (圓圓) yesterday as the estrus cycle for the pair came to an end.
The zoo said it would learn in April whether a baby panda can be born this year.
Zoo staff and panda experts from Wolong Giant Panda Reserve Centre in China put the two pandas in the same room yesterday morning in hopes of a possible mating, but failed in the attempt even though the pair engaged in mating acts including hugging and making bleating sounds.
Huang Yan (黃炎), a panda -expert from the center in Sichuang Province, who arrived on Sunday to help with the breeding, said it was normal for Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, both six years old, to fail in the mating because they only reached maturity this year and lacked sexual experience.
As to the success rate of artificial insemination, Huang said it was extremely difficult to confirm a pandas pregnancy via ultrasound until 15 days before labor because of the small size of a panda baby, which is only about 100 grams.
As a pandas pregnancy ranges from 70 days to five months, the panda team will work with the zoo to monitor Yuan Yuans situation over the next two months, giving her urine tests and ultrasounds to find out if she is carrying a baby
In response to some concerns that artificial insemination goes against nature, Taipei Zoo director Jason Yeh (葉傑生) defended the zoos efforts to breed the pandas, saying endangered species are mostly fostered by human beings.
Pandas have only one estrus cycle every year, and given the fact that they are an endangered species with a low success rate of natural breeding, theres nothing wrong with us seizing the opportunity of their estrus cycle to help with the breeding, he said.
With the success rate of artificial insemination standing at about 60 percent, Yeh said the zoo would continue efforts to assist breeding next year if this years attempt failed.
The Panda Hall, which was closed since Wednesday for the pairs breeding, will reopen today.
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