There’s a new tool combating pandas’ frankly pathetic interest in species propagation: panda porn. (Link is SFW) Zoo officials in China are using video of pandas mating to induce the animals to get it on during their shockingly short (24-48 hours) mating season. Above and beyond any mere Panda Cam, these flicks include loud audio and plenty of adult situations. The result has been many successful pregnancies. We can only hope this baby boom successfully assuages China’s thirst for our panda seed.

Any pandaphile will remember the anxiety surrounding Mei Xiang and Tian Tian’s first round of breeding, that produced a bouncing baby Butterstick. Now with another bump watch in effect at the National Zoo — they’ve even got a blog dedicated to effort — we’re all hoping for another little ‘stick (henceforth to be known at DCist as Pat).

If this latest effort to inseminate Mei Xiang with clearly inferior San Diego sperm fails, however, it may be time to get our own panda erotica and let the couple go at it as God intended: driven into a sexual fury by porn from Asia.

Photo by Flickr user EKCJ.