A beautiful friendship, I’m sure.
(Although really, labs are friends with just about every living thing. Still adorable.)
Bonus cute: Baby anythings are cute. This was presented with the caption “Hay what’s up?” Continue reading
Seriously, are you going to tell these birds they can’t do something? I don’t think they’d listen. They might just cut you instead.
I found this picture in an Imgur album, and tracked down photo credits at Retronaut:
“Marine First Sergeant Neil I. Shober of Fort Wayne, Indiana, shares the spoils of war bananas with a native goat, one of the few survivors of the terrific naval and air bombardment in support of the Marines hitting the beach on the Japanese-mandated island of Saipan.” – National Museum of the Pacific War
Saipan is a 12-mile-by-5.6-mile island in the Northern Marianas Islands. From June 15 to July 9, 1944, the U.S. fought to take control of the island from Japan, which had held it since 1914. 71,000 American troops met 31,000 Japanese. The U.S. suffered 3,426 killed and about 13,000 wounded. It was the most costly battle of the Pacific War up to that point for the U.S.
Of the 31,000 Japanese soldiers, only 921 were taken prisoner. The rest were either killed in action or committed suicide. Out of a civilian population of around 25,000 people, an estimated 22,000 died. Many of them committed suicide, allegedly with the encouragement of the emperor, who promised them “an equal spiritual status in the afterlife with those of soldiers perishing in combat,” according to a Wikipedia article citing a book by David Bergamini.
But this goat survived, and got some bananas. Whether this scene is more cute or horrific is up to each of us, I guess, but war is hell.
Photo credit: National Museum of the Pacific War.
A baby elephant is called a “calf,” which is neither distinctive nor particularly cute, so I just went with “puppy” instead. Anyway, here are two baby elephants holding trunks:
I know what you’re thinking: it reminds you of this, right?
This is a bucket full of baby sloths. The two at bottom right are French kissing.
That’s all for this week. Trust me, you couldn’t take any more than this.
(See Slothville for more sloths if you don’t want to heed my warning…)
“To the window! To the wall!” says the sea turtle.
I don’t know what the hell this is, but I respect its need to dance:
If I don’t use the word I made up*, who will?
Here’s a dog who’s noticing an awful lot of tension in your back:
!["noodle massage" by m anima [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)], via Flickr](http://crypticphilosopher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/38266948_5fcda76be9_z.jpg "\"noodle massage\" by m anima [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)], via Flickr")
Even bunnies need to help each other loosen tight muscles:
!["Massage time!" by Carly Lesser & Art Drauglis [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)], via Flickr](http://crypticphilosopher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/12657985224_58154b8b25_z.jpg "\"Massage time!\" by Carly Lesser & Art Drauglis [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)], via Flickr")
It’s not just non-human animals that need to get the kinks worked out. Furries need some therapeutic touch now and then, too: Continue reading
Today we have something that is both cute and punny.
Via imgur.com
I was hesitant to do a Google image search for “beaver,” let alone “cute beaver,” but I’m pretty sure Google knows more about what I’m looking for than I do at this point, so either that is already an entirely SFW search, or it took the liberty of filtering out the Urban Dictionary-approved results (you know what I mean.) So anyway, here are some more cute beavers: Continue reading
