Proof that we love meerkats more than our own babies... says RACHEL JOHNSON By Rachel Johnson for The Mail on Sunday At the beginning of his new wildlife documentary series Life Story, David Attenborough stands on a primeval plain, blue remembered hills pointy in the background, somewhere in Africa. "There's a story that unites each of us with every animal on the planet," Attenborough opens, as violins swell in the background. It's a story of the greatest of all adventures - the journey through life. The acclaimed series shows footage of meerkats fighting with their food, humpback whales migrating, a young albatross learning to fly and - jump on to iPlayer NOW - harrowing scenes of five flightless, two-day-old goslings hurling themselves off towering cliffs after their mother, smacking and pinballing into rocks (three miraculously survive) as they plummet in search of grass to eat below. Meerkats have been ubiquitous on our screens in the last few years - both real and puppet versuions A meerkat and his family - the animals feature in the new Sir David Attenborough series We can't get enough of what one newspaper called this "glorious, appalling spectacular" of nature. And yet when the human species turns the camera on to itself for its moments of tenderest intimacy and highest drama, we often don't know where to put ourselves. As two very different examples last week revealed, we can take any amount of the meerkat's struggle, say, through life towards death, and other species" efforts to keep their young going, but we aren't always so soppy and tear-sodden when it comes to our own. Emma Bond posted a photograph of her feeding her newborn daughter for the first time on Facebook and had it removed Last week, Facebook took down a picture of a new mother, Emma Bond, breastfeeding her premature daughter Carene, after another user complained the image contained "offensive" nudity. The image showed the scrap latched on, her tiny hand resting on her mother's breast, a feeding tube still taped to her nose. Miss Bond then uploaded it to a pro-breastfeeding website but users who tried to share it found the link deleted. "It was the first time she had breastfed so there was a reason for me posting that particular picture," she said. It was a magical moment. Facebook backtracked after the outcry, and said that breastfeeding was OK, nipples weren't, and reinstated the image. Meanwhile, singer Robbie Williams has been the butt of worldwide ridicule for uploading a comic series of videos and photographs on his Twitter feed, spoofing the redundant role of the husband in the labour room. Happy day: Robbie Williams praised his wife after she gave birth to a little boy - their second child More from Rachel Johnson for The Mail on Sunday... He makes the birth of his second child, Charlton Valentine, all about him - he worries the amniotic fluid will spatter his dressing gown, he sings Frozen during contractions, he dances to his own songs in front of his labouring wife, and - ha ha - the series ends with wife Ayda pushing her exhausted husband out of the hospital in a wheelchair. I thought it was funny and the couple's piece to camera, after the 8lb 2oz boy was safely born, touching and true. "The universe just presented itself to us, again," Robbie says, looking dazed and proud. We're really happy and honoured that you shared the journey with us. I know I'm one of those people who cries during the news and when Enya comes on the radio, and can't watch Lambing Live, let alone One Born Every Minute. But let's cut these people - accused of over-sharing, or stepping over some arbitrary line when it comes to Facebook's Orwellian "community standards" - some slack. I welcome their posts - even if Williams's last announcement was of a forthcoming tour, sigh - as the internet all too often projects our species as merely sexual beings, just as the news reminds us that we are endlessly violent, and sometimes it feels like our world is all porn and beheadings. OK, the star's made a bit of a tit of himself, but well done Emma Bond, Robbie and Ayda for deciding in the spirit of shared humanity to "share their journey" with us. When it comes to telling their real Life Story, we should reserve a little tenderness for all the species on Planet Earth, not just fluffy goslings. The Rembrandt show of late works at the National Gallery is dumbfounding. The artist produced more than 80 self-portraits, so the landscape he knew best was his own face; his most familiar model himself. The way his paint and brush strokes reveal him at the end of his life at only 63 brings tears to the eyes. You should all go, and then weep some more as you leave, as I did, and have to fight your way through Trafalgar Square, past all the students and tourists snapping selfies - some really knocking themselves out and using special "selfie-sticks" - all making the same, grinning, silly face. Julia Roberts revealed last week that she has found peace through "studying yoga on a more conscious level" and de-cluttering her life. It's about non-grasping, non-hoarding, cleaning out your closet, dusting out your mind and letting go of the things that weigh you down mentally and emotionally... You may scoff but, inspired, I immediately bought several copies of a bestseller called The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying (I live with a dedicated hoarder). The principle here is to discard everything that doesn't bring you joy. I'm giving it to everyone in the house for Christmas. I'll make them all read it, then I'm going to chuck them out, and banish them from my life. The books, I mean, of course. Dave's too smart for that T-shirt Last week the PM declined five requests from Elle mag to model a T-shirt with the slogan "This is what a feminist looks like." Quite right. Why should he participate in a PC PR stunt? Especially when the proffered photo opportunity coincided with new World Economic Forum research that revealed Britain fails to chart in the top 20 countries when it comes to equality between the sexes. The Fawcett Society, which produces the T-shirt (that was worn by Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg, and Harriet Harman at Prime Minister's Questions), says the pay gender gap's just increased for the first time in five years. So not a good day for Dave to say been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman wore the t-shirt as she sat next to Ed Miliband on the frontbench Gripped by BBC One's The Missing, the eight-parter about the abduction of a five-year-old English boy in a small town near Lille. I predict it will do for kiddie-friendly family hols in France and open-air public pools what Jaws did for skinny-dipping in the sea and beach holidays for decades, everywhere. Emily lays bare the mysteries of the male psyche Blurred Lines beauty Emily Ratajkowski is not averse to casual sex, so she tells Cosmopolitan Blurred Lines beauty Emily Ratajkowski (above) is on the buzzer when it comes to what men want, I suspect. Having revealed in an interview that she is very much up for casual sex, and not looking for a long-term relationship, the Gone Girl star has since posted a steamy picture of herself wearing a skimpy bikini on Twitter. "I feel lucky that I can wear what I want, sleep with who I want, and dance how I want, and still be a feminist," she told US Cosmopolitan, adding: "If I want to have casual sex, I'll do it." Below the line has exploded with comments, almost entirely from men, saying "I'm free," "Storming bod," "There's nothing I wouldn't do to that" and "Call me, Emily!"