This video about the birth of giant panda twins in Washington is X-rated stuff, and almost beyond satire. Surely any species that needs sperm donors, artificial insemination, and multiple midwives is beyond saving.
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Bill Scott29 March 2024
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Bill Scott26 March 2024
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Bill Scott21 March 2024
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It is sad and odd isn't it, we squander a planet and children's environmental rights and legacy, but panic about the panda... Kind of a strangely misplaced collective environmental moralising ?