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Erin Ruberry shows us how you weigh baby animals: Twitter | Threadreader

Don't miss the koala.
posted by Johnny Wallflower (11 comments total) 23 users marked this as a favorite
 
If someone can show me how to weigh baby animals for a living, I am all over that. Otherwise you're just a hobbyist.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:11 PM on October 5, 2018 [4 favorites]


"Erin Ruberry" is somehow the perfect name for a baby-animal-weigher. I have a pet theory that people who are really successful in their fields often have names that are in some ineffable way just appropriate for the type of job that they do, and this is more evidence in favor.
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 7:27 PM on October 5, 2018 [1 favorite]


Now I want to snorgle a baby jaguar even though I know it will grow up into something that will kill me.

It will be a satisfying yet messy death.
posted by tommasz at 8:31 PM on October 5, 2018 [8 favorites]


The giraffe one? That’s how I used to weigh my kids. Kids are wiggly and the scale won’t register them otherwise.
posted by Knowyournuts at 8:56 PM on October 5, 2018 [1 favorite]


The baby river otter! I am undone!
posted by mochapickle at 9:31 PM on October 5, 2018 [4 favorites]


This is the most satisfying bunch of animal pictures I've seen in a long time. The koala is my fave but the baby panda is pretty hilarious.

I have a pet theory that people who are really successful in their fields often have names that are in some ineffable way just appropriate for the type of job that they do, and this is more evidence in favor.

The Romans believed it too: nomen est omen, or nominative determinism.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 9:37 PM on October 5, 2018 [1 favorite]




After all the everything going on, I clicked on one and it was adorable and I burst into tears. Lovely thread.
posted by Emmy Rae at 5:33 AM on October 6, 2018 [3 favorites]


The panda... is so panda-like
posted by mumimor at 5:58 AM on October 6, 2018 [1 favorite]


That baby jaguar appears to be having an existential crisis.
posted by praemunire at 9:21 AM on October 6, 2018


That aardvark is hilarious. Just sent the link to my pregnant sister. She wholeheartedly approves everyone learning to weigh babies!
posted by MuChao at 11:14 AM on October 7, 2018


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