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Giant Panda is carrying through the artificial insemination and expecting a cub at the end of this month REUTERS

If Lu Lu and Zhen Zhen were humans, they would be in great demand among porn filmmakers. That’s because this pair of Chinese pandas mated for seven minutes and 45 seconds.

They broke the record of the Sichuan Giant Panda Research Centre in China and even beat humans, reports Joe.co.uk. According to the centre, on the average, panda’s mating lasts five minutes and 30 seconds. The other pair, Yi Bao and Jix Xin, lasted one minute and 20 seconds.

In comparison to human males, Lu Lu acted like he took Viagra. He lasted longer than the average American man and even a Mexican whose record is just more than seven minutes, reports The Daily Dot.

As a result of the viral video, the pair is the talk of China, while Lu Lu was given the nickname “Enduring Brother.”

Breeders from the centre were monitoring and videotaping the pandas mate for the centre’s staff to understand the mating habits of the bears and to encourage it to reproduce in the future, particularly during their mating months that start in March and lasts until May.

To encourage the panda pairs to have sex, the panda caretakers used bamboo poles to guide the two pairs toward each other - since the animals are caged – when the pandas are in the mood to mate.

The centre said the female is in heat only once a year, usually between two and four days. When having sex, the female makes loud and strange noises, while the male leaves traces of his scent to attract the female panda.

Ironically, in the same week that Lu Lu and Zhen Zhen became Internet sensations for their having sex behind bars, two mainland Chinese students enrolled in Hong Kong universities may end up behind bars for also having sex – on the pavement of a busy Hong Kong street because their lovemaking session was also videotaped and became viral on the Internet, reports the South China Morning Post.

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