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"Sex Education" For Pandas

Posted by timothy on from the something-to-moan-about dept.

ahertz writes: "If only it were this easy for geeks! CNN is reporting that officials at the China Giant Panda Breeding Center in Woolong, China are showing... err... panda pr0n to increase the sex drive of captive pandas. The program is apparently quite effective, as birth rates have risen dramatically."

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  1. It IS that easy... by Jester998 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We watch pr0n all the time, and I'm sure our sex drive is quite high.

    Of course, the problem with US is the opposite sex... it's nothin' to do with how horny we are. :)

    - Jester

  2. Re:Animals can see TV? by TRACK-YOUR-POSITION · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Searching the internet, I found a computer graphics lecture about color spaces that explains what I'm talking about, sort of. Combing low and high frequency waves does not give you a medium frequency wave, but it might give you light with the same color as medium frequency light. No doubt we knew of the primary colors before we knew of rods and cones, but those colors merely appear to be primary because they are the ones are rods and cones are sensitive to.

    The part of the lecture that applies to my question is the part where different spectral energy distributions produce the same color--which opens the possibility that non-human could percieve two lights that humans believe are the same color as two different colors.

    I recall sometime ago an article linked to from slashdot suggesting it may be possible some women have a fourth primary color in their eyes. Certainly it's not difficult to imagine some animals are more sensitive to infra-red ultra-violet lights than humans--in which case the light shown by our visible light tv's would certainly look different than the light an animal would see in the real world.

    Wait a minute, I'm an idiot. Obviously color has nothing to do with animals and humans detecting black vs. white things. AND PANDAS ARE BLACK AND WHITE!! Therefore, of course color is not needed in these sex education films...

    Then again, if Panda color perception is different from human color perception, maybe pandas don't see themselves as black and white...

  3. Not so funny... by afabbro · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I thought this was a funny read until I got to the part about there only being 1,100 pandas left in the wild.

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