Since I have babies on the brain, I thought I'd share a photo from this Reuters article. You're looking at a set of panda twins, fresh from a research center in southwest China. You may not know this, but panda breeding is very difficult. Females only ovulate once a year, within about a 24 - 48 hour window. Combine that with encroachment into their territory, and you have a recipe for extinction.
Thanks for the link, Jared.
Congrats, hon! No worries about the lack of updates--UgO can take a backseat to Diaper Overload! ;-)
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I'm not sure they actually qualify as 'ugly.' Maybe if their hair was removed...
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the kidlet.
ReplyDeleteLove the blog. :)
Bears in general are rather ugly when they are first born. But they cute up so fast. Two panda babeh's... they are a double dose of 'ugh'.
ReplyDeleteGrats on the babeh! Welcome to dad-hood.
~Kit
Congrats! Hope Mom and baby are doing well!
ReplyDeleteCONGRATS, our Great and Wonderful Wombat KING. ;)
ReplyDeleteIt is understandable that you are MORE than a LEETLE bit preoccupied with baby-stuff right now.
Certainly, panda bee-bays were a perfect choice in the interim.
Panda pups are both hopelessly HELPLESS (i.e. CUTE) vs. really, REALLY, HORRIBLY UGLY, at the same time.
They take months to even look like a placental mammals.
Thank You for sharing your life with US!
The little one on the left looks like it's shouting, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" in response to a threatening mirror.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your own little one! :) Thanks for Ugly Overload so far and long may the uglies continue!
Hey!! Congrats to both you and to Mom-Wombat! Sorry, these little guys are cuties, but "diaper-overload" fits the "ugly" topic pretty darned well as I recall....
ReplyDeletePandas are marsupials, though, right? These bebehs surely haven't left the pouch yet?
ReplyDeleteGrats on the new baby. Love the blog. :)
Great blog and CONGRATS on the birth of your son.
ReplyDeletePraying all is well with mommy and baby and enjoy them!!!
No, pandas are placental mammals, they just give birth to very altrical babies (offspring that require supervision and care from their parents after birth, where they are supplied with shelter, food and protection...like rabbits, mice, humans).
ReplyDeleteI don't know if they're still going around and around about whether pandas are closer to bears or just more of their own kind, but medieval folks thought that mama bears gave birth to just "lumps" of flesh and licked them into bear-shape and breathed life into them.
Yay for Wombat, Jr., too!
Congratulations on your little wombat! Is there a special name for a baby wombat? Womblet? Wombling?
ReplyDeleteThis particular wombatling is named Sam.
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