Love is in the air as two giant pandas have mated for the first time in 10 years in a deserted Hong Kong zoo. Ocean Park theme park and zoo announced that Ying Ying and Le Le had decided to have sex on Monday.
The zoo was empty because of the coronavirus lockdown. Both 14, female Ying Ying and male Le Le had been showing signs that they were entering their mating cycles late on in March, and ended up acting on it for the first time in almost a decade.
Giant pandas are known among zookeepers to be very infrequent maters, so this was cause for celebration among the staff. Michael Boos, executive director of zoological operation and conservation at the zoo, was over the moon at the news. "Since Ying Ying and Le Le's arrival in Hong Kong in