I don’t normally post links to cute pictures. The entire rest of the internet does that.
Dammit, I have succumbed.
Lots of cute little panda cubs.
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I don’t normally post links to cute pictures. The entire rest of the internet does that.
Dammit, I have succumbed.
Lots of cute little panda cubs.
Comments are closed.
I was concerned that your blog had become frivolous, and was missing out on the real issues.
I’m glad to see that you have rectified the situation.
*The widdle panda is trying to fix a printer! OMG cute!!!!*
Bah. I’ll bet they smell bad and bite just like seal cubs.
A tutor of mine was tenting in the subantarctic islands once when a seal cub decided his tent would be a nice warm place to sleep. Which was fine until the cubs mum came looking for it….
Ohhhhhh, cute little pandas.
But hey, you could’ve justied panda pictures as political, seeing as how they are the face of the WWF (although I thought they’d banned panda-wrestling) and this probably represents a triumph for the breeding programme and all.
They have to go to panda kindergarten, presumably to learn how to be real pandas, rather than cuddley toys… do they have real pandas to teach them or a person in a panda suit?
And here’s the real question… is it principled for the WWF and other such to have cute things like pandas and dolphins as symbols and put so much effort and money into saving them when the real issue is widescale destruction of habitats and unlovely or ‘boring’ organisms like soil bacteria and fungi and plants and insects? Or do people need these symbols to pursuade them that the cause is worth fighting for (me, I’d save the cute pandas and dolphins every time… but I kinda think we need to fight for algae too).
I wonder what they taste like? Probably like chicken I guess.
Karen: I’m all about fighting for algae.
Things with fur get much more enviro-love than things with chitin or scales or leaves or whatever fungus has. As long as marketing governs how we make our decisions – and, to an extent, it always will, because marketing is just an extension of human weaknesses into the transactional sphere – there will be a fur to fungus hierarchy.
So I think your second option is right – without the kyoot, you wouldn’t get a viable cause.
Sylvester: I’m told they taste just like komodo dragon.
And of course, algae can look pretty cool too, in a monsters of the deep kind of way… (e.g. http://www.mortalspaces.com/illuminations/textureproject/texturejpgs/kelp.jpg ) though I guess kelp is probably the panda-face of the algal world.
P.S. Fungi have mycelia (sing. mycelium), which are the long thready strings of cells, and fruiting bodies that are called different things depending on what class they are… I seem to remember one of the coolest names was basidium.
Cute? They look like little Marlon Brandos!