Array stores timezone schedule. Configuration for menus. There is something achingly vulnerable about the giant panda. Sitting clumsily down, legs straight out in front, holding one end of a bamboo shoot in its paw while it munches on the other, it resembles less a wild animal than a teddy-bear trying to survive alone in the woods. Or more specifically, a marked disinterest in it.
Pandas spend most of their waking hours chewing bamboo.
And it's not the females who have the headache. Dr. Lindburg has had first-hand experience with giant panda recalcitrance on the breeding front. For the past two years, CRES has been trying to breed Shi Shi and Bai Yun, the male and female pandas that the San Diego Zoo received from China in 1996, with less than stellar results. He was aggressive, he growled and swatted her away. Their vocalizations change to bleats like a sheep that become louder and shorter until the peak of estrus, when they start chirping.