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Aradhus wrote:kittens and a bunny wabbit

Aradhus wrote:kittens and a bunny wabbit

Army of GOD wrote:

Aradhus wrote:kittens and a bunny wabbit

I wonder how that came about. My cat would absolutely tear apart the rabbit.

Lootifer wrote:

Army of GOD wrote:

Aradhus wrote:kittens and a bunny wabbit

I wonder how that came about. My cat would absolutely tear apart the rabbit.

Lol, but is ur cat a nursing mother?

MeDeFe wrote:Baby star-nosed moles?



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natty_dread wrote:I call them "cthulhu moles"

Symmetry wrote:

natty_dread wrote:I call them "cthulhu moles"

Lil' Cthulhu

Aradhus wrote:How come I've never looked at an animal and thought, 'that looks tasty'? How does it help me to think that these animals are cute? I don' gerrit.

Aradhus wrote:I know, that's not what I meant. I'm wondering what makes animals hunt other animals, does a lion see a zebra and think 'mmm tasty'. I've never seen an animal I wanted to hunt and eat. When I see an animal often times I want to give it a big hug. Just wondering what's going on there.

Aradhus wrote:I know, that's not what I meant. I'm wondering what makes animals hunt other animals, does a lion see a zebra and think 'mmm tasty'. I've never seen an animal I wanted to hunt and eat. When I see an animal often times I want to give it a big hug. Just wondering what's going on there.

natty_dread wrote:

Aradhus wrote:I know, that's not what I meant. I'm wondering what makes animals hunt other animals, does a lion see a zebra and think 'mmm tasty'. I've never seen an animal I wanted to hunt and eat. When I see an animal often times I want to give it a big hug. Just wondering what's going on there.

Well... animals mostly follow their instincts. Although we don't know all that much about animal consciousness, or how aware they are in general, I don't think animals can comprehend the concept of "cuteness". For wild animals at least. For domesticated ones, it might be a bit different, but most wild animals just basically see things from the view of survival and propagating their genes.

There are exceptions though... There are tons of cases where an animal of one species finds and abandoned baby animal of another species and adopts it. A crow has been known to adopt a baby cat. A mother lion has been known to adopt an orphan gazelle - after slaughtering its mother.

Symmetry wrote:

natty_dread wrote:

Aradhus wrote:I know, that's not what I meant. I'm wondering what makes animals hunt other animals, does a lion see a zebra and think 'mmm tasty'. I've never seen an animal I wanted to hunt and eat. When I see an animal often times I want to give it a big hug. Just wondering what's going on there.

Well... animals mostly follow their instincts. Although we don't know all that much about animal consciousness, or how aware they are in general, I don't think animals can comprehend the concept of "cuteness". For wild animals at least. For domesticated ones, it might be a bit different, but most wild animals just basically see things from the view of survival and propagating their genes.

There are exceptions though... There are tons of cases where an animal of one species finds and abandoned baby animal of another species and adopts it. A crow has been known to adopt a baby cat. A mother lion has been known to adopt an orphan gazelle - after slaughtering its mother.

A bit of a side note to that, but maybe you'll find it interesting, is that cuteness seems to be genetically related to domesticity, at least in mammals-

National Geographic article on research into domesticating foxes

Lootifer wrote:Back to "cute" animals.

This is pushing the boundry, but still kinda cute in a weird way: