
Love and the Brain: The Animal Matchmaker and the Panda Romeo and Juliet
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Animals Are Emotional Agents
There's been disagreement throughout history about the emotional lives of animals. Hearing about pandas mating made Shayla Love consider how human love can be formulaic too. We live in a culture where love is tied to sex, and sex is understood as procreative. The person that we are supposed to love the most is typically somebody that forms a hetero-normative relationship with us which leads to children.
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