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[–] [S] 100 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The aye-aye is weird-looking enough as an adult, but it looks like a Jim Henson creation as a baby.

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    And ducks. I've had a couple generations of ducks and they're so adorable as ducklings, including the newborns. The adults are pretty, though; got one whose black feathers look plain from a distance but are an iridescent sort of deep purple and green closer up.

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    Except the birds with precocious chicks. They're pretty much all cute. For example, the baby killdeer is adorable. baby chicks and baby ducks are pretty cute too.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Damn, good point. Ducklings are adorable. And look at this little guy!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    As I think about it, that's a pretty good rule for most vertebrates(I exclude fish in this). If the newborn can walk around within an hour of being born or hatched, it's a lot more likely to be incredibly cute. Deer, giraffe, elephant, horses are all pretty cute. Kangaroos(all marsupials, actually), rats, mice are all pretty ugly. You could start a flame war debating the relative cuteness of newborn humans, canines and felines in comparison. Though they get pretty cute fairly fast.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    weasels. pictured, long tailed weasel mom carrying newborns https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/73859688

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Yeah. Came here to say most rodents would fit this bill though even the adults aren't for all tastes. Mice, etc. are much cuter when they have fur.

    Newborn cats aren't all that great looking.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Ladybug. The baby is a demon spawn made to eliminate aphid. It's good but not cute, it's metal.

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    [–] 35 points 2 months ago

    Fuckin humans. Little alien potatoe mutant lookin infants geoss me the fuck out.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago*

    Birds and humans.

    Also a lot of rodents, like mice, rats, etc.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Pandas and kangaroos come to mind immediately. Probably every marsupial would make the cut here too.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    Yaknow... There's a freshly born stage and then a teenie cute stage.

    Many freshly born animals are not cute at all. Even for a few weeks. Then you give it 2 months and it's cuter. Still a baby.

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    [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Stellars Jays spring to mind. One of the most beautifully punk-rock looking birds and worryingly intellegent, but my god their young look like nothing more than cancerous scrotums.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Small spiders. They are not fast, and then help keep my environment bug-free.

    Edit: I misunderstood the assignment. I thought the question was asking which animals I found cuter after I became an adult.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Hahaha, but that would have been a great question.

    I'm going with snails. When I was younger, my family made a big deal about hating them in our garden, which is maybe fair. But now I'm an adult without a garden, and they're just some cute, hungry little freaks.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Platipus - they start as boring eggs

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    I dunno. This is a tough one, because guinea pigs are absolutely one of the cutest at birth. Folks expect them to pop out pink and blind, but they come out like tiny little guinea pigs. Already have their hair, almost ready to walk, eat hay, and make jelly beans.

    Don't get me wrong, adult guinea pigs are pretty damn adorable. But the babies are the cutest, right up to about 4 weeks old when the baby boys start screwing their sisters and Mom.

    I'm having trouble trying to decide. The only difference I can think of between the babies and the adults is size, and I think being smaller always makes you cuter.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Frogs

    Tadpoles can be cute, but I think frogs beat out tadpoles for most people.

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    Mud daubers or damselflies in a 'Ghibli characters come to life' way. Those things look like they flew straight out of a Ghibli flick.

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