Female Pandas Play The Field In Search Of Mates

Plants and Animals





Photo credit:

Female pandas walk as far as males in search of a mate. dangdumrong/Shutterstock

They’re renowned for eschewing mating for all but a few days of the year, but it seems that the courting behavior of wild giant pandas is just one more oddity to add to a long list of strange things about these peculiar bears. For most mammals, it is the males that will wander away from where they were born in search of a mate. But pandas appear to turn this on its head, and instead the females also strike out on their own.