Middlebear
Aug 11th, 2025 by Madeline Glass
Best headline ever:
Sexually Suspect Panda Gives Birth to Twins
Short version: Chinese vets thought the panda was a male (due to obvious penis and “male behavior”) and sent it off to mate with a female. No wild panda fucking, no baby pandas. The scientists decided, since pandas are very endangered, to try artificial insemination and when they went a-harvesting semen, discovered that, oops, “male” panda doesn’t have a penis. Hmm, maybe panda is really a lady panda, but she looks like she has a penis. Maybe it was a “little crocus” like Callie’s in Middlesex. Panda penises are, after all, only about 3 cm long.
Oops, guess what? Newly-discovered panda girl’s plumbing is out of place. Doctors operate to put ovaries where “normal” lady pandas have them.
Scientists then try putting previously-thought-male-or-hermaphroditic panda with a “normal” male and boom! Two little panda babies. No word on their plumbing.
Seriously, though, “sexually suspect?”
Thanks, CNN!
“Sexual Suspect” was the name of Garp’s mother Jenny’s book in “The World According to Garp”.
It would also make an excellent blog name, dontcha think?
Huh, I’m surprised no one’s claimed that name yet.