Too Cute Tuesday
These twin pandas at the Wolong Nature Reserve in China are just hanging out and enjoying their special bond.
Did you know there is a magazine specifically for “multiples”? “TWINS™ Magazine has been the premier national/international parenting magazine specifically published for twins, triplets and higher order multiples since 1984!”
“Scientists have yet to find any genes that cause a fertilized egg to split in two — and resulting in monozygotic twins — suggesting identical double trouble is a random occurrence…. Research has suggested that genetics is behind a woman’s propensity to release more than one egg at a time, which if two of the eggs are fertilized they become fraternal twins.…men who inherit this “twin gene” aren’t affected by it, but they can pass it onto their daughters who then are more likely to have fraternal twins.” (Read more.)
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