Synthetic insemination will likely be used on Adelaide Zoo’s large panda Fu Ni within the ongoing bid for a panda cub after years of unsuccessful makes an attempt together with her potential mate Wang Wang.
The zoo’s panda exhibit will shut from Friday for the annual panda breeding season.
The zoo says the medical intervention this 12 months was really useful by officers from the China Conservation and Analysis Centre for the Large Panda.
“Utilizing progressive and scientific intervention at the moment within the large pandas’ life stage affords the very best probability of a profitable being pregnant,” the zoo mentioned.
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“Large panda copy is precariously restricted and tough.
“The feminine solely ovulates for a really quick window, between 24 and 72 hours as soon as per 12 months, and even when the timing is correct she is ready to withhold or delay being pregnant.”
Fu Ni and her potential mate Wang Wang have been in Adelaide since 2009 on mortgage from China.
Efforts to have her give beginning are a part of a worldwide conservation program for the susceptible species, with fewer than 2000 left within the wild.
-with AAP
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