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Okay. What you're hearing are the sounds of two pandas in love.

She kept going to his side of the pen and just, you know, calling to him and checking in on him and, you know, just felt like one of those very unfortunate, like, Romeo and Juliette stories or something.

Love? Love takes up a lot of human attention.

We write movies, books, and music about it.

We talk endlessly to our friends about dating and our partners.

But how big of a role does love play in the lives of our non-human animal friends?

I'm Shayla Love, and you're listening to Scientific American Science Quickly.

We've been digging into different aspects of love,

and today we're going to leave people behind to ponder if animals feel love.

And if how we answer that question tells us anything about the way we see non-human animals and what love is at all.

Megan Martin is a conservation biologist in Portland.

But another way to describe what she does

is that she's an animal matchmaker.

Cardina glottis, checkers got butterflies,

Kiki in Hawaii, African-painted dogs in Oklahoma City.

She directs PDX Wildlife, a nonprofit that's dedicated to helping animals get it on while in captivity. What she's probably

most known for is helping pandas breed.

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