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Experts Work on Improving Propagation of Pandas
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2002-01-10
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| Giant panda experts and zoologists gathered to work on a worldwide effort to select genetically diverse mates to ensure the birth of healthy panda cubs in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province. The 40 seminar participants from home and abroad mapped out a five-year plan that would involve matching up giant pandas with a mate, according to Monday's China Daily. Statistics indicate that 78 percent of female giant pandas can't bear cubs and 90 percent of the male suffer from sterility, partly due to inbreeding in the rare animals. Giant panda breeding and research centers around the world will work hand in hand, conducting hereditary analysis and genealogical system research, exchanging frozen sperm and even giant pandas, experts said. With the involvement of Chinese and US experts, the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Base kicked off the building of China's first genome resource bank of endangered animal species last year. There are about 100 giant pandas in worldwide research centers and more than 30 of them live in the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Base and less than 1,000 giant pandas exist in the world with 80 percent of them in Sichuan. |
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