Pandas are infamously bad at procreating, and after Edinburgh Zoo's female panda, Chan Chan, rejected her mate the keepers have decided to try and take matters into their own hands.
"We measure the hormone levels in the urine samples and that basic goal is to be able to know when ovulation is going to happen, so we can time the artificial insemination or natural mating," Dr Aggarwal told BBC's James Cook.
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But Edinburgh Zoo will not know whether their artificial insemination has been a success until Chan Chan has an ultrasound in several months' time.
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