Panda porn pays off

I thought this story is really funny.. mmm..

Scientists say a bid to encourage giant pandas to breed by showing them 'panda porn' has paid off. They claim to have sparked a baby boom among the endangered animals by showing them DVDs of pandas mating. "It works," Zhang Zhihe, a leading Chinese expert, told the Xinhua news agency. Pandas are notoriously poor breeders and the 'panda porn' movies were just one of many techniques used to encourage them to breed. In the first 10 months of this year 31 cubs were born in captivity in China and 28 survived, said Zhang. That's an increase from 12 births in 2005 and just nine in 2000. Of this year's births, 14 came through natural breeding, while artificial insemination or a combination of the two produced the rest. Now comes the next test - getting the trick to work outside China. The day of reckoning will come in January, when Prasertsak Buntragulpoontawee hopes male Chuang Chuang and partner Lin Hui will mate in Thailand. "It is the same idea as chimpanzees seeing people smoke and then copying it," says the Thai researcher.

Didn't think of this before.. but it works. A new way of increasing the number of endangered species.. but to think of this, isn't it weird seeing animals sitting down confortably in front of TV watching porn.. Haha.. Can't imagine that..

By the way, Ray and Leona from X-factor are in the final next week. Another great performance by them. I have the feeling that Leona will win the competition. She is beautiful and has an amazing and powerful voice. Her vocal range is really great. Hope her next performance next week will be as great or even better than this week's performance. Too bad I can't watch it next week because I'll be going to Barcelona on the 16th Dec. Yeah.. Barcelona.. We'll be back on the 19th. We haven't decided the places of interests that we'd like to visit. Maybe we'll check on the internet. Insyaallah I'll be taking a lot of pictures and post them here.

Happy Belated Birthday to Leah.. Nda dpt celebrate bday like last year. Still remember when Azim, Fau, Frah, your parents and I surprised you at your birthday.. hehe.. Happy 22nd birthday.. Enjoy life terribly with Dean, your new love.. hehe