Probably to ensure due time to honor the previous Pope. Including historical periods when travel was required to show respect in person. And when it took time for Cardinals to arrive and they didn't want local Italian Cardinals to get a jump on voting.
Nerves of steel, yet at the same time I think that even a primitive creature like that has an appreciation that it was being helped, that these are not a threat and not food.
Because they are huge animals aggressively defending their territory able to take a large bite of flesh out of a person. I bet you're one who'd try to take close ups with the cute bison in Yellowstone.
He's cashing in on the gravy train he learned from his co-star. To be relevant in the long term he needs to appeal to the younger generation That means conveying anxiety, sexual ambiguity, behaviors along the spectrum, etc. Or at least that's his branding strategy.
They were groomed by the example set by Millennial women (and their older thought leader) creating whole elaborate theories on how men aren't people, have no inner life, are little more than meat puppets exuding toxic primal urges.
The way the US rebuilt Japan, with little to no retribution,and how that staged a monumental recovery of now peaceful Japan, is one of the great humanitarian efforts in the history of mankind.
