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Young giant pandas play at the Chengdu panda reserve
There are only about 2,000 giant pandas left in the world and those in captivity show little desire to add to those numbers and reproduce.
So scientists in panda reserves are using a novel tactic: they play their pandas films of other pandas mating, in the hope that the idea catches on.
The BBC's James Reynolds went to the Chengdu Panda Reserve in Southern China to investigate.
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Listening to that was Dr Richard Preziosi, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. What does he make of that somewhat unsuccessful experiment in using video to encourage pandas to reproduce?
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First broadcast 18th and 19th February
