Japan's only Chinese giant panda, Ling Ling, is heading for Mexico for a third attempt to impregnate three females of the popular but endangered species.
The middle-aged Ling Ling, now 17, was sent home last year to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo after failing a second time to romance females at the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City.
"He's raring to go," a zoo official said.
Only about 1000 giant pandas live in the wild - atop foggy, bamboo-covered mountains in western China.
Female pandas in the wild usually give birth to a single cub only once every two to three years, and it has proven difficult to tempt those protected in zoos to mate.
Ling Ling off to Mexico to find romance
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