Six year old Ai Hin, from Chengdu, China, is smarter than the average bear. She appeared to be expecting and was supposed to deliver on TV. She was quick to obtain all the mom-to-be benefits at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding while the zookeepers prepared for a baby that would never arrive. The show was then called off when her caretakers discovered that she actually wasn’t pregnant.

According to Meg Wagner from the New York Daily, faked pregnancies are common throughout the endangered species world, but some of the more clever pandas take the scam to a new level. Faked pregnancies often begin with behavioral and hormonal changes such as decreased appetite, activity, and interaction with other pandas. If a panda exhibits these signs, they are immediately put in private, air-conditioned rooms where they are fed copious amounts of fruits and bamboo.

Figuring out whether a panda is pregnant or not isn’t as easy as it is to ascertain the pregnancy of a human. Panda fetuses are very small and hard to see through an ultrasound, and much thought isn’t put into finding out whether one is pregnant or not because such an occasion is rare and too sacred to doubt. Wu Kongju, an expert at the Chengdu Research Base who was a victim to Hin’s swindle states, “After showing prenatal signs, the [panda] “mothers-to-be” are moved into single rooms with air conditioning and around-the-clock care.”