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Giant pandas were hard to breed in captivity
Short fertility windows and choosy behaviour frustrated early programmes Females are receptive for only two or three days a year, and captive animals often showed no interest. Artificial insemination and shared studbooks improved results. Captive breeding now supplies animals for reintroduction work. It sits in Mondo's animals collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Giant pandas were hard to breed in captivity: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Short fertility windows and choosy behaviour frustrated early programmes. The figure is taken from Smithsonian, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a animals fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Animals shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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