Edinburgh Zoo's pandas enter 'love tunnel' to mate

I am so glad I am not a panda....a window of 36 hours a year in which to mate and the rest of the time sit around eating bamboo. I like the way they say they've created a love tunnel and switched off the 'pandacam' but they've got some bloke lifting her tail out of the way with a bamboo cane.....that would put me right off....why didn't they just book them into a Travel Lodge for a couple of days and be done with it......