Japan has been hit with a wave of cute baby animals, the likes of which the world has rarely seen before. This new video shows the cubs behind this shocking cuteness epidemic: Raja, a 7-week old lion Yokohama Zoo, and a rare litter of newborn baby cheetahs from Tokyo. The cheetahs are cute and all, but Raja seems to have the star power necessary to earn him a place in the Baby Zoo Animal Hall of Fame alongside Flocke and Knut. The clip shows the lion cub squealing, sniffing the camera, and drinking from a baby bottle. For God's sakes people! The wion is dwinking fwum his widdle biddy baby bottle!
I can't even handle all this cuteness. It's melting my brain and turning me into a senseless pile of goo. I'm going to go read about the election for a few minutes until I regain my composure. [via]
This is probably the single weirdest piece of animal cuteness porn that I've ever come across, and since we like to think of ourselves as connoisseurs of critter clips here at Gridskipper, that's really saying something! The video stars Lira, a three-month old Liger cub who lives with her owner in a small apartment in Yekaterinburg, Russia. As seen inNapoleon Dynamite, ligers are a hybrid cross between a male lion and a female tiger. They look like ordinary lions with stripes, but the crossbreeding results in a genetic tic that makes ligers grow up to twice as large as their lion and tiger ancestors. Lira already weighs almost sixty pounds, but she eats almost five pounds of meat per day and she'll only be able to stay in the apartment where she lives for another month or so. For now, Lira's handlers have to keep her leashed or caged because "if you let her off the leash she'll turn everything upside down and tear everything apart." She does get to go out for walks through the city streets on her leash. It looks like it might suck a bit to live with a liger, but from where I'm sitting, her mischief-making, romping, and cavorting is just ridiculously adorable.
Back when Gridskipper first posted about the disarmingly cute polar bear cub named Knut having won the coveted cover of Vanity Fair (as well as our hearts), it became obvious that the once-orphaned cub, now child of the world, was destined for great things. And so it went. Knut is now the star of his own feature film, Knut und Seine Freunde (Knut and His Friends), which is currently out in 150 cinemas across Germany. The documentary, by Berlin filmmaker Michael Johnson, captures Knut in all his glory -- from young cub to enormous adult. The film also includes a handful of likewise cute and fluffy "friends" of Knut's -- two brown bears, Masha and Pasha, as well as the maternal Maidu and her two cubs, Lasse and Lin. Expect a whole lot of ooing-and-ahing -- this cuteness porn comes with a soundtrack and suspense-inducing cuts. [via]
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