Since my previous post on the subject Rihanna has not performed any
concerts anywhere in the world. However in that post I mentioned that
Rihanna's visit on Sunday (13/10/13) to a South African safari park was
likely to cause trouble by pulling the issue of wildlife conservation
into sharp focus. Well today those problems have turned up.
Way back in April right around the time Rihanna was performing her
California, US concerts and reuniting with Chris Brown staff at the UK's
Edinburgh zoo decided that their female Panda Tian Tian was pregnant
following a course of artificial insemination. This prompted a long
pregnancy watch which involved much discussion about any possible change
to Tian Tian's behaviour. As Tian Tian - along with all other Pandas -
belongs to China this set up a bilateral discussion between the UK and
China that could well have been used as a coded discussion about the
state of Rihanna's mind and uterus. For example on September 24th (24/9/13) just as Rihanna was performing in Perth, Australia
it was announced that Edinburgh zoo's Panda in closure was being closed
to the public because Tian Tian had become highly sensitive to light
and noise. Apparently in a Panda this is considered normal pregnancy
behaviour but in a human such as Rihanna it can be considered a sign of
extreme stress and emotional vulnerability.
With the average Panda pregnancy lasted 22 weeks it was around the start
of September people were becoming very suspicious as to why Tian Tian
had not given birth. Prompted in part by Rihanna's visit to a South
African safari park and in part by the UK finance ministers visit to
China the UK has today finally owned up and admitted that Tian Tian is
not pregnant. Obviously they couldn't just come out and say; "We lied"
so instead they are claiming that Tian Tian was pregnant but suffered a
miscarriage. The exact phrase they used was; " she lost it" which could
be interpreted as someone (possibly Rihanna) losing their mind and
having a nervous breakdown.
Edinburgh zoo went on to talk about how they feel they did everything
they could, collected lots of valuable scientific data for analysis and
are confident that Tian Tian will shortly experience a successful
pregnancy. This seems to be the UK apologising in advance to the Gulf
Monarchs because although I want to tempt fate it now seems a lot less
likely that Rihanna's planned meltdown in the UAE will actually
materialise. However in the event that it does the UK is also attempting
cover itself by talking about zoo staff doing all they can to ensure
that Tian Tian gets the peace, quiet and privacy she needs to recover
from this tragic incident. That way if the UAE meltdown does happen the
UK can claim its hands are clean and blame it all on the US.
If the Tian Tian story wasn't enough at the UK's London zoo a female
Sumatran Tiger Melati also fell pregnant at roughly the same time.
Although this was kept secret at the time and the nature of the
pregnancy has still not been revealed this set up another pregnancy
watch this time involving Indonesia where Sumatran tigers are native,
the US where the daddy Tiger Jae Jae is from and Australia's Perth zoo
where Melati was born. According to her Internet personal profile (no
really) Melati is a big fan of Chanel no5 which obviously makes her a
perfect coded reference to Rihanna. For example when Melati actually
gave birth on September 22nd (22/9/13) it was all recorded on secret
cameras hidden inside the enclosure. With Rihanna heading to Australia
at the time this was supposed to give the impression that Rihanna was
under constant covert surveillance creating speculation about who had
access to the tapes and making Rihanna extra paranoid.
On Saturday staff at London zoo found Meltai's new cub which hadn't been
named or sexed dead by a pool in the enclosure. This was also publicly
announced today and seems to being used as a way to further downplay the
risk of a UAE meltdown possibly in an attempt to prompt the South
Africans to be less gentle with Rihanna. However unlike the Tian Tian
announcement this seems less well scripted leading me to believe that
staff at London zoo don't actually know what happened. Therefore I
suppose it is possible that by using the pregnancy in this political way
has somehow tainted the cub in the eyes of the mother causing her to
reject it by killing it.
As for the actual Rihanna apparently she's got her mother and cousins
visiting her in South Africa and they all spent yesterday visiting an
aquarium. As far as I'm concerned this is all fine because with the
Malian summer not really happening Rihanna's relationship with her
family isn't exactly of huge intelligence value and most things
Rihanna's will do in South Africa will involve wildlife or the countries
natural beauty in some way or another. However if Rihanna did literally
go and swim with actual sharks I will need to see pictures and/or
video.
(Originally Posted) 13:30 on 15/10/13 (UK date).
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