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- From: raoul@fangio.wa.com (Jeffrey E. Benedict)
- Newsgroups: seattle.general
- Subject: Re: Ling Ling
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 12:51:46 PST
- Organization: J. Benedict Computing
- Message-ID: <01060100.mjrmv8@fangio.wa.com>
- Reply-To: raoul@fangio.wa.com (Jeffrey E. Benedict)
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- In article <3045@uswnvg.uswnvg.com> (seattle.general), jstaffe@uswnvg.com (Jarrod Staffen) writes:
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- [rest of phony looking post deleted]
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- Since you brought it up:
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- This is a sad occasion. I've always liked panda bears even though
- I'm not much for zoos and things.
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- Talk about a couple with sexual problems! Ling Ling had the dammedest
- time getting her old man interested in doing the "Wild Thing" and
- when they did, the cub (I guess!) would die before it was born.
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- Does anyone know about the mating habits of the panda in the wild?
- (Must be the same since there are only about 1000 in the wild) NPR
- had an interview with one of the biologists at the DC Zoo who was
- discussing the mating habits of the panda. He said that they are
- not the "mate for life" type and they really didn't form what we humans
- would call a "marriage bond". Comments, oh, biologists??
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- A day or so after the death of Ling Ling, another report said that
- scientists were going to try to save some eggs from her ovaries by
- freezing them with liquid nitrogen and thawing them out later when
- a suitable sperm source was found. After that, they would be implanted
- in a female panda's womb. (Obviously, not in a *male's* womb! :))
- I don't know if I like this... If panda's are supposed to die out
- because their mating patterns is somehow screwed up, I say 'let it
- be' (Sorry, John and Paul!) If humans are the major contributions,
- I can see it....
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- Anyone want to stretch a metaphor and talk about China/US relations?
- After all, Tricky Dicky was given the pair of pandas in 1972 when
- he went to China. We have trade with China after all these years,
- but it seems to just be trinkets made by slave labor.
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- What soc.* or sci.* group would this sort of thing be discussed?
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- Take care and have a happy new year-
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- Jeff
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- Jeffrey E. Benedict- raoul@fangio.wa.com - Port Townsend, WA. USA
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