. . . or so thinks reader Barry, who sent me this photo:
I have to admit it’s pretty adorable.
First, identify it.
Then, give us your choice of the world’s cutest animal. Don’t forget to specify whether its supremacy is limited to either the adult or juvenile stages.
I suppose I’d choose a baby Giant Panda, but then there are baby manuls, baby tigers, and so on.
That is totally a Pokémon ! 🙂
That be a Long-eared jerboa but I really wanted to call it a bunny moth.
My cutest animal: pangolin. Cute all the time: adult, baby or rolled up in a ball.
Re jerboa ID… cripes, you’re good!
🙂
You should know it has to include the binomial! Euchoreutes naso 😉
It is the Muad’dib!
Ha! Nice one! Your Dune reference reminded me of this.
Haha, that actually took me a while to figure out 😀
My first thought was – oh that must be from the miniseries (which I haven’t watched), the scene in the Lynch movie looked completely different 😉
Yeah the Lynch stuff was bizarre. I recommend the series. I own all the DVDs from it & it is much truer to the books.
Ok I should check it out then. I’m not one of the haters of the Lynch movie, I actually love the atmosphere, but yes there are many liberties in it.
Nice.
There must be some mistake, Diana. That’s something in my pot — over-steamed artichoke!
Yeah they do look artichoke-esque.
Wait — you mean Eeyore eats pangolins!?
b&
I was going to say Pangolin too. 🙂
Still get eaten by pythons 🙂
long-eared jerboas
Cutest animal ever… Red Panda (aka Firefox) all stages.
Yes, they are damn cute.
Damn straight.
Sea otters.
Otters would have to be on my reincarnation wish list, though they are not as cute as the fellow above.
Kevin, have you read ‘Laura’ by Saki (H H Munro)?
Reincarnation as an otter sounds like a good idea to other people, apparently.
I have no doubt in my mind that I have you all beat for cutest animal in the world. I know… it’s not a contest but I’m pretty passionate about how cute this little guy is.
Japanese dwarf flying squirrel !
Really cute!
long eared jerboa
I like baby humans, but I am pretty biased.
Your comment reminded me of this meme: There, there ugly, bald puppy 😀
LOL!
You made me laugh! Tnx. Stresses gone now!
🙂
Hate to say it but the d*g is much, much better looking 😉
Cows are my favourite. I suspect they know something we don’t….
I concur. Especially the weest Bovinae !
Blue
It’s a gremlin before getting splashed.
Lol
I find baby sloths beyond adorable:
https://www.google.fr/search?q=baby+sloth+images&client=ubuntu&hs=zXZ&channel=fs&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=J-yoUsXtGs2rhAfUj4DoBA&ved=0CC4QsAQ&biw=1920&bih=933
I was just going to suggest sloths myself! Any age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bradypus.jpg
I believe the roborovski dwarf hamster (both juvenile and adult) deserves a mention. It’s the smallest of all hamsters
http://mascotas.lapipadelindio.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/hamster-roborowski.jpg
Your link’s not working for me!
Strange, it worked before…
maybe this one?
http://kleinanzeigen.nagetiere-online.de/upload/4b4e3e65626e3.jpg
Yes! And worth asking for! 🙂
Yes, they are adorable! And little larger than a Walnut 😀
Is that a nick in its ear or do they come that way?
As others have noted, this is a long eared jerboa.
I have to admit that this critter is definitely a contender in the Cutest Animal Pageant.
Baby platypus!
http://cdn.cutestpaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/l-Cute-little-baby-platypus1.jpg
Awwwww
Quokkas get my vote – but I could be swayed. Hard to pick just one.
I may be biased…but Baihu stretched out on the bed in a splash of sunlight on a cold winter’s day is awfully damned cute….
b&
I’ll put in a vote for the chinchilla. We have a pet one and she is pretty darn adorable.
I mean, just TRY and beat this for cute!
Awwww! Now I want a chinchilla. It’s so much work with little animals though – my guinea pigs required aspen bedding which had to be changed often and was dusty & fresh greens as well as vitamin C which I had to make into a liquid and feed to them through a syringe because the fussy little things wouldn’t eat oranges or kiwi fruit!
She’s really quite simple to care for. Pellets and timothy hay and the occasional bit of dried fruit for a treat. You do need a large cage for them to move about, chew toys like pumice blocks for grinding down their teeth and a heavy-duty wheel for exercise. Oh and dust baths. If you’ve never seen a chinchilla take a dust bath it’s just about the cutest thing ever.
One thing you should before acquiring a chinchilla: they can live up to 20-25 years in captivity.
For the cuteness contest, I propose pygmy possums:
http://beforeitsgone.com.au/2011/08/15/cuteness-in-the-palm-of-your-hand-the-western-pygmy-possum/
Desnes Diev
Baby hedgehog
Baby echidna
Baby aardvark
(Do I have a thing for noses?)
And I am sorry since I should have posted just one.
Don’t worry… you won’t go to hell for it. 🙂
Long-eared Jerboa for sure.
As for the cutest animal – besides my lovely cat (especially when she was a kitten) – I find most species of lemurs, both adult and babies, to be the cutest animals.
Like this one?
So many good choices but my vote goes to a baby Fennec Fox.
http://www.zooborns.com/.a/6a010535647bf3970b01116898bd5b970c-pi
Goat kids. L
Love goats! Had a pet one when I was a kid (no pun intended) in Martinique. Sweetie Pie played tag with us human kids and our dog. My mother wasn’t too pleased when SP peed on my brother’s bed. And you thought that cat pee was bad…
Goats are very smart & I’ve heard a lot of people say that they had one once. I like them because they don’t take crap off anyone either – just head butt you one if you get out of line with the goat.
There are some pet goats up the street at a farm that sells its produce on site and I always make sure to visit the goats when I go there. If I lived in a climate that allowed goats to stay outside all year without building a barn, I’d have one. I saw a lot of goats in New Zealand with little goat houses.
Oh, yes!!
Esp. Nubians!
You cant get cuter than this without a prescription.
http://www.templeofcuteanimals.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/panda-rocking-horse.jpg
Black and white, and red all over. Pandas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61MC54E3mfY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Se6flT2EWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u155ncSlkCk
Adult red panda cute too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ry8B15CAE
This cavorting little goat has been featured on this website before. I haven’t been able to get over her exorbitant level of cuteness since then.
oops.. would someone please remind me how to post links without embedding?
Wrap the link in an HTML ‘a’ tag like I just did for this sentence.
I believe just leaving out the http:// part of the link will do. Word Press will replace that part but the vid won’t embed.
yes… works everytime.
Wunderbaaaaaa
Possibly not the world’s cutest animal, but a worthy cause nevertheless.
LOL I do love the idea of a possum army. I hope they have little helmets and everything
Other than my cats…
Tarsiers.
That’s a rabbit mixed with a mole. Actually, it’s the long-eared jerboa. 🙂
Nothing exotic for me– a garden variety bunny is as cute as a little critter can be.
Resisting. Urge. To.-
D’AWWWWWW
To date, other than Baihu, nobody has mentioned kittehs! This is weird. I suppose everybody has mentally / subconsciously thought ‘other than kittehs’ because they’re the staple of this website…
No cats?
How about Snow Leopards at all stages.
Silky anteaters (any age). http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/sleeping-silky-anteater.jpg
Sod the mammals…the cutest animal in the galaxy is clearly Breviceps macrops.
These baby bats
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1344988/Crowded-baby-bat-clinic-barometer-Australias-bad-weather.html
Awwww! How adorable all snuggly in their blankets! When I visited Cairns, at dusk I’d go down and take pictures of the cute bats in the trees.
Bilby.
For the cutest baby animal it would be hard to go past an Emperor Penguin chick.
Obviously this is very much a personal thing, and there can be no objective and definitive answer.
But the answer is Llamas, and anyone who says otherwise is a fool and a communist.
The answers above are all good, though, especially Pangolins and Chinchillas.
Also, an honourable mention for the sheep on Skye. When you cross from the mainland to Skye, the sheep all become an order of magnitude cuter.
Why only mammals? Owls are cute
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burrowing_owl_smile.jpg
It it “has” to be a mammal, then baby hedgehogs.
ok, I just saw this http://www.barnorama.com/new-mom-for-baby-hedgehogs/ when looking for pictures of baby hedgehogs, and just HAD to post it 🙂
That is a Long-Eared Jerboa, and while it is cute as a button, those back legs are super creepy.
My vote goes towards the Fennec Fox, whose adorableness is not limited to any one stage of its life cycle. It is the cutest thing ever from birth to old age.
It appears to be a bilby (Macrotis lagotis).
Originally from another jpg:
“I hear something … down the street … across the park … behind the trees … under the berm.”
Or some-such.
Didn’t we have this “contest” once before on this website? I seem to recall that at that time I nominated my two daughters; I’m sticking with that choice.
Of course, tarsiers really are adorable, too.
Cute? It looks like something from a particularly dreadful and sentimental Japanese comic-book. What a revolting little creature!
Better find it cute, or it will eat your dreams while you sleep.
😀 +1
This:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMpl5rMDVvA
This cartoon just came out today; it speaks to the potentially important question of us humans attempting to protect other species based on their charisma:
http://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2013/12/15/#.Uq3ayoWKykY