You can't hurry love

Spare a thought then for Yang Guang, Britain’s only male panda, who appeared exhausted yesterday by the whole baby – or in his case cub - business. Britain’s only giant pandas were put together for the first time in the unappealingly named “love tunnel” at Edinburgh Zoo in the hope that they would mate. But while Tian Tian, the female of the pair, was more than a little obvious in her intentions, Yang Guang was merely shaken and not stirred. Panda experts have been monitoring her urine for days to check her hormone levels and declared that the time was right. But as she is only in season for 36 hours a year, Yang Guang, whose name translates as Sunshine, would have to be quick about it.