Ugh … Oh yes, the breeding of the giant pandas, it was like amateur night in the backseat of a drive-in movie. There was just no natural breeding, and then that, of course, they, we wanted to do the natural breeding for a couple of years, and that didn’t work. And then you heard the story when they sent, we sent Chia Chia, they sent Chia Chia over, the male giant panda from England to breed with Ling Ling. So my colleague, John Knight, flew over the male giant panda, and so we had two males and a female, and we were gonna run ’em together, you know, but they were gonna do the introductions, and the female came in early, she came into estrous and we introduced it to our male, and of course nothing happens with the English male was there, so we had to introduce them. So they was very nice, you know, introduction, sniffing, talking each other and kind of the male made a half-hearted mount, and female just turned, and did a little bark like they do. And he hit her like a buzz saw, and started fighting, and they were screaming, and he was biting, and chunks and hair was flying out, and so I ran down to the front and got a garden, the big high pressure hose and trying to separate ’em. And so finally I was squirting the male, and the female was realizing that I was protecting her, so she sat right down underneath me at the mote, and the male would come and start …
