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Sunday Cute – Tiger Cubs Are Kind Of Cute
Posted on July 25, 2010I’m posting this first set from the Jerusalem Zoo because (a) it’s an exquisite park with nary a bar nor fence, even inside the birds of prey exhibit, and you should know that and (b) I’m insanely jealous of the... -
Sunday Cute – Very Confused Puppies
Posted on July 18, 2010First your picture of the day, with a dog that seems confused about its evolutionary role. Courtesy of MR readers PS: And now your video. You might want to turn down the sound on this one, as the owners’ pet... -
Sunday Cute – The Dusky Damselfish Is An Obsessive But Adorable Gardener
Posted on July 11, 2010Turns out, there are fish that garden and weed. The dusky damselfish, or stegastes nigricans, is a tropical reed fish that tends to its own patch of algae, cultivating the kind it likes and uprooting the strains it doesn’t. It... -
Sunday Cute – Cats Sleeping In Boxes
Posted on June 13, 2010Via MR reader PS, a gallery of cats sleeping in boxes. Consider it something a followup to last month’s hit video of cats running up slides. And while I know you guys have been pushing for more baby sloths and... -
Sunday Cute – Baby Sloths Strain Credulity
Posted on May 30, 2010Filmed by Lucy Cooke and posted to Vimeo a couple weeks ago, the video purports to show what’s going on inside and outside the Aviaros del Caribe sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica, “the world’s only sloth orphanage.” It’s a good... -
Belated Sunday Cute – Cats On A Slide
Posted on May 24, 2010I’m still working out some issues with the new WordPress installation, and for one reason or another this didn’t get pushed live yesterday. Which is a shame because it’s almost two minutes of different kittens, and they’re trying to run... -
Sunday Cute – Particularly Ill-Advised Interspecies Encounters
Posted on April 25, 2010A meerkat who doesn’t understand how size works: This cheeky meerkat appeared to have offended a rather prim giraffe after wandering into its enclosure. The tiny mammal bounded into the giraffe’s pen, sparking the curiosity of the larger beast. The... -
Puppy Palette Cleanser
Posted on April 22, 2010“A Doggy Summer,” apparently produced by some kind of puppy training school. The soundtrack is kind of critical to the ethos of the piece: Speaking of training dogs, please check out MR sponsor Purchase Green. I’ve been putting sponsored links... -
Sunday Cute – Octopus Steals Camera, Creates Viral YouTube Hit [Video]
Posted on April 18, 2010Octopuses are notoriously intelligent, capable of such complex processing and behavior that some scientists insist they have a a rudimentary consciousness. They also turn out to be mischievous little fame whores, flooding aquariums because they think it’s funny and stealing... -
Sunday Cute – Ticklish Otters, Baby Otters, And Sliding Otters
Posted on April 11, 2010Since the ticklish koala from a few weeks ago went over like traffic gangbusters – another brutal reminder of where videos of fluffy things twitching their ears rank vs. posts unpacking the inexorable institutional dynamics that are hurtling the Middle...
