Thailand puts panda on low-carb sex diet

[Blue_Tires]

Sun Jan 14, 1:07 AM ET

BANGKOK (AFP) - A male panda in Thailand has been put on a low-carb diet because he is too heavy to mate with his partner, his caretakers have said.

Chuang Chuang weighs 150 kilos (330 pounds), while his partner Lin Hui is a lithe 115 kilos (253 pounds), said Kannika Nimtragol, a veterinarian at the Chiang Mai zoo in northern Thailand.

"We think Chuang Chuang should not weigh over 140 kilogrammes. Otherwise Lin Hui will carry too much weight while mating," she told AFP.

To help Chuang Chuang slim down, zookeepers are feeding him fewer bread loaves and more bamboo branches to cut back on the amount of carbohydrate he consumes, she added.

The diet program is under the careful supervision of Chinese panda experts. Six-year-old Chuang Chuang and his five-year-old partner Lin Hui arrived at the zoo in 2003 on a 10-year loan from China.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070114/wl_asia_afp/thailandwildlifepandasex

[Blue_Tires]

1. oh, come ON, people!

this story has two things we all love in a lounge thread: cute cuddly animals and sex!

there should have been 50 jokes about double entendres or fat pandas by now..... :think: :bounce: :shrug:

step up your games, people:hi:

[Deja Q]

2. !

:spray:

Can't they make the panda exercise more? And isn't sex is a good form of exercise?