Open Post: Hosted By Exhibitionist Pandas

For the first time ever, filmmakers have captured the mating rituals of pandas in the wild. It turns out all they need is a little privacy, something they lack in captivity, and now we’ve probably doomed the species by publishing their sex tape. Good job, humanity. They’re really never going to fuck for us again!

According to People, the amateur video Horny Bears Fight and Fuck In Public will air as part of an upcoming PBS documentary Nature — Pandas: Born to Be Wild.

For three years, two Chinese filmmakers, working with park rangers and scientists, trekked through the forests of China’s Qinling Mountains on a mission to capture the daily lives of pandas on film. The patience and perseverance of these filmmakers paid off, they are the first to capture a particular part of the panda’s mating ritual on camera.

This first-time footage is especially impressive because the panda’s breeding season is notoriously short and there are only an estimated 2,000 pandas left in the wild. Female pandas are often fertile only a few days a year, and many different factors have to go right for a panda to get pregnant in this slim window. The part of this complicated process that was recently filmed for the first time is the moment in the clip above where two male pandas fight each other for the attention of a female panda.

Here’s the video. Tell me, who else is out here roaring, scent-marking, fighting, and taking hostages while remaining cute as a button? I’ll wait.

No one? That’s goddam right. OnlyPandas.

Pic: YouTube