Chinese animal handlers eager to increase the panda population have yet to introduce bamboo-flavored Viagra, but they have come up with the next best thing -- "sexercise" videos.

Pandas have notoriously low sex drives, and by watching these programs, it's hoped that the males will partake in pelvic strengthening "dances" and learn a few moves that will help them with lady pandas.

"We arrange love-making between two excellent pandas in front of inexperienced pandas, which have never had sex. It does work," the reserve's deputy chief, Fei Lisong, told the China Daily.

Fewer than 1,600 giant pandas survive in the wild, along the edge of the Tibetan plateau in China, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Read more weird animal stories.

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