[I'm totally in love with the Albino Microbat. So Cute. Together we will breed the new race of Albino Microbat Overlords, protected solely by our demonic cuteness. And of course, our army of Man-Bats. Regular sized Man-Bats. But first I need to see if it's a She, and if she has a job, 'cause funding a Man-Bat Army and raising our litters of cottony-white cute future overlords isn't cheap.]
"Honey, can you lend me, uh, $1bn USD? You'll get it back, I swear. Just squeak once for yes." posted by Minus215Cee at 11:13 PM on July 21, 2008
I'm fully prepared to make some sort of comment about needing insulin, but they're just so cute.
Ok, most of them.
I'd get the baby puma and the red pigs, but I somehow think that there would only be heartache down the road... posted by pupdog at 11:35 PM on July 21, 2008
I need a baby lesser panda, and I need it now. posted by ORthey at 11:47 PM on July 21, 2008
Oh, nevermind. You said "frog" so at first I thought I was making sense. But I wasn't! posted by miss lynnster at 12:15 AM on July 22, 2008
Thank you miss lynnster. It's a timely reminder that these wonderful pictured animals are under grave threat. Relentless human captioning and over-LOLing has pushed these non-textual pictures to the brink of extinction. Unless we act now the next generation may never see a picture of a baby marmoset that isn't dependent on UR FOODZ, or an un-anthropomorphised albino bat image.
If we all act together, we can protect web-published wildlife imagery from memes. posted by Fiasco da Gama at 12:22 AM on July 22, 2008 [6 favorites]
Yes also to the lesser panda. But I dispute the "lesser". It's way cuter - where you been all my life, baby?
Having said which, it's a shame so many have to be pictured on conservationists' hands. You know what that means, people (i.e. like what FdG said, only serious). posted by imperium at 12:33 AM on July 22, 2008
You got your cute overload in my metafilter! posted by BrotherCaine at 12:51 AM on July 22, 2008
baby donkey looks like a plush toy. posted by juv3nal at 1:08 AM on July 22, 2008
You got your metafilter in my cuteoverload!
put on your pants, I'm calling the police posted by Stunt at 1:10 AM on July 22, 2008
They had 3 entries for X! Having a three-year-old, I've had to read more than my share of kid's alphabet books. For X, it is almost always x-ray fish (which is a bit of a cheat in my opinion). The only exception is fictitious. posted by MrGuilt at 5:31 AM on July 22, 2008
Oh god. Even the baby vulture is cute! Up is down! Left is right!
What's next? Cute baby California Condors? posted by giraffe at 6:08 AM on July 22, 2008
Oh I call hijinx! 'Red panda' and 'lesser panda' don't count as two animals, do they?
The whole presentation was full of hijinx. "Bengal Tiger" and "Black Handed Spider Monkey"? They couldn't find a baboon? Half of "A" was full of "albino", and tigers populated 3 other letters, and then had the gall to sit down in "T" as well.
I'm all for cute stuff on the internet, but some people seem to just have their brain melted by it. This one in particular merely forgot how to alphabetize, but CuteOverload takes the cake. With their moronic blabber and incessant spellings, it's unreadable. What is up with "kitteh" anyway? Is saying "kitty" not cute-sounding enough? To be honest, "kitteh" parses like Cartman from South Park is saying it, which isn't too cute to me... posted by explosion at 6:12 AM on July 22, 2008
With their moronic blabber
Anyone who says they read Cute Overload for the articles is lying! posted by giraffe at 6:13 AM on July 22, 2008 [2 favorites]
Sumatran Tiger is filed under "S" but Solomon Islands Leaf Frog under "F." I think this system is going to cause problems when there is a personnel change. posted by Pater Aletheias at 6:56 AM on July 22, 2008
Baby Turtle wins. Little Leonardo is too quoot. posted by aftermarketradio at 6:57 AM on July 22, 2008
It's all about the baby hedgehogs. posted by nax at 7:14 AM on July 22, 2008
So, it's not really a baby animal alphabet so much as alphabetically ordered photos of baby animals. Ok. That pretty fantastic as well.
(Fun Fact: This weekend I discovered that I am delicious, to lemurs anyway. I was at a petting zoo and a baby lemur found it's way to my shoulder where it proceeded to frantically lick at any exposed skin it could find. When we took it off and handed it to a little kid nearby, it immediately escaped, did some parkour styled acrobatics to get back to my neck and my sweet, sweet sweat. It was both adorable and kind of disturbing.)
(Fun Fact number 2: Baby lemurs are made of the most tickle inducing material on the planet.) posted by quin at 8:19 AM on July 22, 2008 [2 favorites]
And as I go through these pictures, I realize that someone needs to do a photoshoot with a couple of baby moose and an infant elephant. Because that would be some animal odd-couple awesomeness right there. posted by quin at 8:23 AM on July 22, 2008
Thanks knile, xenops seems to be it, judging by the distinctive eye detail on the embroidery. posted by tellurian at 8:48 AM on July 22, 2008
I'm totally counting this as research for work. Yes, a job where I spend many hours perusing materials that contain pictures of adorable baby animals. Not that I'm gloating. Still... some of these animals are going to be hard to feature into every day conversation...
"Now, remember Schmoopy, X is for Xenoglaux!" posted by grapefruitmoon at 2:03 PM on July 22, 2008
Heh, when I saw that hedgehog photo earlier, my first thought was "My god, so this is what the next evolution of burrs is? We are doomed." posted by quin at 3:16 PM on July 22, 2008
I think it's the combination of the oh-so-fluffy with the long pointed talons. posted by jokeefe at 4:40 PM on July 22, 2008
As long as we're submitting baby animals for approval... herearemyentries. (The last ones are hyenas... awfully cute considering how they end up.) posted by miss lynnster at 8:06 PM on July 22, 2008
that baby macaque makes me want to curl up in the fetal position. i mean, with it. doesn't it just look like it needs some lovin'? there there, little cabbage. posted by CitizenD at 1:35 AM on July 23, 2008
That reminds me:
Q: Can you name three animals whose names begin and end in the letter K.
A: Killer Shark, Killer Haddock and Kilmarnock - which is a plaice in Scotland. posted by Jofus at 8:28 AM on July 24, 2008
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