Female panda Ke Lin is engrossed in her ‘panda porn’ (Picture: HAP/Rex)

Two shy and retiring pandas finally got down to business and mated in China – after their keepers, on the advice of vets, whipped out a blue movie to get them in the mood.

Five-year-old Ke Lin and her male companion Yong Yong appeared reluctant to do the business, so worried workers at the breeding and research centre in Chengdu, Sichuan province, resorted to showing them a film of other pandas mating.

The unusual technique appears to have worked a treat too, as a spokesman for the centre revealed afterwards that, since Ke showed ‘great interest’ in the filthy film, there is ‘no stopping her’.



‘Every time Yong Yong tried to mount her, Ke Lin fought him off and we were worried she was going to miss her three-day breeding cycle,’ the spokesman explained.


Success: Ke Lin and Yong Yong get down to business (Picture: HAP/Rex Features)

‘So we played them the film and she took great interest in it. After that there was no stopping her and they mated successfully.’

A reluctance to mate in captivity is not unusual among pandas, and few research centres have found a surefire method of encouraging the animals to procreate.

However, it is being suggested ‘pawnography’ could be the way forward – but only because it is a useful educational tool rather than a stimulant.

‘In the wild, Ke Lin would have seen lots of other pandas mating, but in captivity it’s no wonder she needed help,’ the spokesman added.