If You Need a Giant Dose of Adorable, Here It Is!
I have loved and been fascinated by pandas from the time I was a tiny tot through today. I once heard someone say "God makes all babies cute because it makes us want to protect them". But, I also suspect there may be a laundry list of evolutionary and perhaps sociobiological reasons why we find most baby animals (including humans) so darn irresistible.
Whatever the case, it hasn't worked out so well for pandas who have lost habitat and population (latest figures indicate there may be fewer than 1,000 pandas existing in the wild) due to an assortment of human-caused problems. So it only seems fair that humans are the ones making an effort to prevent this amazing animal's complete annihilation from planet Earth.
And of course, the location on planet Earth which seems to have the most luck breeding pandas is China. The breeding center in Chengdu, China just debuted six pairs of twin panda cubs last weekend. Apparently it is fairly common for pandas to have twins in the wild and in zoos, but they often don't survive because of the difficulty of caring for two cubs. So thank goodness for research and breeding centers like this one.
Okay, I promised a big dose of cute. Here it is:
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