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isPermaLink="false">http://spicycauldron.com/?p=4844</guid> <description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia TV naturalist Chris Packham finds his own credibility at risk of extinction over his comments on panda bears. He argues we should let them become extinct because &#8220;extinction is natural&#8221;. Saying people care about pandas only because they&#8217;re fluffy, and he&#8217;s right, most but not all people do, he goes on to tell us that the Yangtze river dolphin &#8220;vanished because it was pig-ugly and swam around in a river where no one saw it&#8221;. No. It died out for a number of reasons, such as human predation, accidental killing, and because the Yangtze river is notoriously <a
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