“Just as we began to wonder whether our bears were entering ‘panda puberty,’ something exciting happened,” a zookeeper said.
The US’s two giant pandas caused a stir at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo Friday after they were spotted flirting with each other — in what zookeepers hope could be a sign of potential panda babies to come.
The male Bao Li, normally the more talkative of the two pandas, seemed excited by her attention. He pressed his face against the mesh screen and the pandas had a nearly minute-long exchange, the footage shows. Exotic dancer 'The Punisher' testifies he was hired for up to 12 'freak-offs' for naked Diddy wearing Islamic face covering“Just as we began to wonder whether our bears were entering ‘panda puberty,’ something exciting happened,” the experts said.
Bao Li, meanwhile, is a showman and a loudmouth who’s much more likely to “bleat” than his female counterpart, they said. When his keepers arrive, he often “bleats” a greeting at them. His name is a combination of the words “precious” and “powerful.”Zookeepers hope the flirtations could develop into mating and future panda cubs to help repopulate the endangered species. However, both pandas are a few years away from being able to procreate.
Many of the behaviors the panda keepers saw in Bao Li were similar to his grandfather, Tian Tian, when he was readying himself for breeding; and many of Qing Bao’s behaviors mirrored those of Bao Li’s grandmother, Mei Xiang, as she approached mating age, experts said.
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