Today's Rocketboom mentions the NCSU symposium on obese zoo animals and links to me:
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So, the zoo nutritionists got together for a 2-day meeting at NCSU to discuss the issue:
Obesity among zoo animals is such a complex problem that zoo nutritionists, scientists and others, from as far away as England, gathered at N.C. State University on Friday for a two-day symposium on such…
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The giant panda.
Younger offspring: It eats a lot of bamboo.
Elder offspring: Would do great living in a Chinese restaurant if it had a hundred bucks.
Dr. Free-Ride: Why a hundred bucks…