China's having some big troubles with cranky males.

First there's the zoos. According to China Daily, there are about 5,000 endangered animals in about 400 species who are living single lives. And they are mostly male.

These single elephants, zebras, gibbons, musk deer, rhinos, golden monkeys and black apes are getting crankier and crankier as they see fellow animals living the lives of mated bliss. Many eventually turn violent for want of nookie. And they die earlier than their mated brethren. (In America, being unmarried is now judged to be one of the big four causes of premature death in males.)

When young male elephants in Africa are kicked out of their families by the reigning female, they frequently turn rogue, tearing up the landscape and killing anything they run into.

Back in China, it isn't just zoo animals the authorities have to worry about.

The government's one-child policy is really roiling the waters. Because males are more prized than females, the fair sex is being depleted by baby killings and MRI-directed abortions. The government has banned MRI's used for abortions, but who's looking.

It is estimated that there are now about 20 million more males than females between the ages of 15 and 45 in China. That's 20 million men pawing the ground, frustrated by the lack of available females.

China's leaders fear instability and uprisings which may originate among the rural poor who are losing their land and missing out on the big city boom.

Add sex deprivation to poverty and China's leaders could face another big revolution from the countryside.

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