Thursday 5 April 2012

E is for Experiment










...as in the Edinburgh Mating Pandas Experiment. The fertility window for a panda is apparently two days per year, but is about to close, with the relationship unconsummated. We are told that the happy couple spent those vital days "wresting, playing roly-poly and doing handstands". Aaaaah. Reminds me of my own honeymoon...

8 comments:

  1. Wow, so your husband is big, cuddly and hair too. Lucky you :-)

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  2. Yes, I too was wondering which one was you in this delightful honeymoon snap

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  3. You've really made me laugh, Frances. Many thanks. x

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  4. Well that's perhaps the shortest, funniest, educational and most revealing post I can recall. The mind boggles.

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  5. You did handstands??

    I can't believe they only have a 2-day window. No wonder it's such a big event when a baby panda is born.

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  6. Great quip, Frances! The poor pandas were only getting to know each other, maybe they should have been introduced a bit sooner so friendship could have turned to lust in time.

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  7. No comment, Jarmara...

    Ditto, Jenny!

    Thank you, Joanna!

    Thank you, GB, not least for raising the tone of the comments!

    Yvonne, of course we did handstands. What did you do?

    Rosemary, that's what I thought. I think the keepers were expecting (current) human behaviour...

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  8. Oh this is excellent!

    A bit miffed to discover we did our honeymoon all wrong though...

    Anna :o]

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