Legless Panda Needs Help To Improve Sex Life

An animal research centre in China is appealing to the world for help to create an artificial leg for a panda that lost a limb in a fight -- along with its sex life.

The research group explains in December, a resident of a village stumbled upon a group of pandas fighting. One seriously injured panda, a two- or three-year-old female that rescuers named "Niu Niu", was taken to an animal rescue centre and saved, but lost two-thirds of its front left leg.

"Niu Niu's spirits have lifted, the wound has healed and her appetite has basically recovered. But without her left paw, her loss of balance has directly affected her love life", the group says.

"The rescue centre's staff suddenly had a bold idea. If they could give Niu Niu an artificial limb, not only would that solve her walking and foraging for food, it would also enable her to mate".

Staff were appealing to the world's experts for suggestions and hoped to receive a plan for a "meticulously scientific" fake limb as soon as possible.

China goes to greater lengths than other countries to protect the giant panda, which is regarded a national treasure and found in nature reserves only in a handful of the country's provinces.

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