Artificial Insemination and Stillbirth in a Giant Panda (<i>Ailuropoda melanoleuca</i>)

• HAMA Natsuki

  Kobe Municipal Oji Zoo:Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University

• Huang YAN

  China Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda

• KANEMITSU Hideyasu

  Kobe Municipal Oji Zoo

• OYAMA Yujiro

  Kobe Municipal Oji Zoo

• Ma QIANG

  China Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda

• Luo BO

  China Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda

• Li GUO

  China Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda

• OHTA Yoshinori

  Faunal Diversity Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kobe University

• KUSUNOKI Hiroshi

  Faunal Diversity Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kobe University

• KAWAKAMI Hiroshi

  Kobe Municipal Oji Zoo

• ACOSTA Tomas J.

  Faunal Diversity Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kobe University

• OKUDA Kiyoshi

  Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University

• Wang PENGYAN

  China Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda

• ISHIKAWA Osamu

  Kobe Municipal Oji Zoo

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• ジャイアントパンダ(<i>Ailuropoda melanoleuca</i>)における人工授精と死産

Abstract

At the Kobe Municipal Oji Zoo, a female giant panda was artificially inseminated three times during the estrous period of 2007 using fresh and refrigerated semen. Urinary concentrations of estrone-3-glucuronide were monitored to estimate the appropriate time for artificial insemination. Urinary concentrations of pregnanediol-3-glucuronide (PdG) were monitored to determine luteal function and to estimate the timing of delivery or end of pseudopregnancy. During late pregnancy period, the urinary PdG showed large oscillations which was not shown in the previous 6 years. The female occurred stillbirth in 9 days after the rupture of fetal membranes, that is on 137 days after the last artificial insemination.

Journal

• Japanese Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

  Japanese Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 14 (2), 119-123, 2009

  Japanese Society of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Keywords

• Artificial insemination
• Giant panda
• Stillbirth

Details

• CRID: 1390282679465075840
• NII Article ID: 110007465857
• NII Book ID: AA11366156
• DOI: 10.5686/jjzwm.14.119
• ISSN: 2185744X
• ISSN: 13426133
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjzwm/14/2/14_KJ00005817776/_pdf
• Text Lang: en
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