Pair made war, not love
NZPA-Reuter Washington Chia-Chia, the male giant panda sent by London Zoo to mate with Ling-Ling, the American National Zoo’s giant female panda, is going home in disgrace. AU they did when they were put together for two hours last week was fight, as Chia-Chia asserted his dominance and left tufts of fiir scattered about thepanda pen. “There is just too much animosity there,” said Theodore Reed, the Zoo’s director. Ling-Ling has a number of bites and abrasions and scarcely moved for two days after her bruising.
When she saw Chia-Chia again she . growled sharply at him. Chia-Chia growled back. '-• When Ling-Ling saw her old but unsuccessful- mating partner, the National Zoo’s own giant male, Hsing-Hsing, she began bleating and chirping at i him, a sign of attraction. . Hsing-Hsing bleated back. But Mr Reed said it would be a while before ; another attempt was-made to breed the'two American i pandas. Ling-Ling was still too stiff and sore j after her encounter with Chia-Chia. The zoo has been trying for eight years to get the giant pandas to breed.
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