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Consider the Pangolin, and Other Animals

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The Desire for the Elegant and Beautiful

If a lima was the size of a human, its testicles would be the size of grapefruits. They think it's probably again an evolutionary quirk to do with sexual dimorphism and selection. And as the book says does make it look like it's in an eight month state of labour. Which explains why it was a kangaroo that got to be in Winnie the Pooh. I wanted to ask you about the way it seems to me we've set aside the natural world. So there's a whole category of animals cats and dogs who are cute. And therefore we go to enormous lengths to keep them alive. There are animals which aren't cute like snakes

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