No matter the grey hair, for our parents, we will always be babies. Hence, all the unasked advice on changing jobs, traveling abroad, getting a loan, you know it. But this time, we won't be talking about humans as we shift onto the animal kingdom to see what animal babies are like.
The obvious thing is how impawsibly cute they are. But other than that, for those who skipped biology (myself included), animal babies are somewhat of an unknown terrain. Do baby hedgehogs even have spikes? Do newborn gorillas resemble human beings? Baby sloths, are they just as cute and slow as adult sloths?
So Bored Panda has prepared for you quite a collection of pictures that should answer all these questions. Be prepared to make your heart melt, and don’t forget to upvote your favorite baby animals! Psst! More pictures of rare animal babies you probably have never seen can be found right here.
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A Baby Fox Showed Up To Say Hi At My Grandmother's House
Suddenly, A Tiny Baby Skunk
Dobby And Draco Are Being Released Tomorrow
The primary way that animals grow and develop is by building more cells. When an animal eats food, its body breaks the food down and uses it to fuel its energy requirements and build new cells through the process of mitosis. These new, or daughter, cells are often similar in size to the old, or parent, cells.
In order to produce more cells, animal cells divide in two. The process is a complex one since the parent cell has to produce new organelles for each resulting daughter cell. It then has to copy the genetic code as accurately as possible and transfer both copies of the genetic code into the nuclei of the daughter cells. In science, it’s called mitosis.
A Bowl Of Baby Otters
There Are Not Enough Baby Hippos
Newborn Gorilla Reacts To Cold Stethoscope
How can people see this and kill their mothers and keep the kids as pets?
However, mitosis requires a lot of energy that comes from food, along with the raw materials for constructing more cells. The food that animals eat is then transformed into usable energy for cells or can be used to build new cells, which form tissues like skin and muscle. The process of growth involves eating food, breaking down food through digestion, absorbing nutrients from food, and building tissue.
Adorable Baby Elephant
Cute Baby Sloth
I'm wondering if baby sloths frolic like other baby animals, or if they are slow right from the start.
Mostly they cling to their moms, or if they have no mom and are in a sanctuary they cling to cuddly toys and hardly move when they are babies. Then start moving slowly. But they are mischievous. There was a documentary about them on a kids channel on Amazon Prime that I watched just because I love sloths. It taught me a lot.
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Do you mean redundant, because ah NO, cute and sloth don't mean the same thing. Sloth refers to inactivity, as in being lazy.
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Aaaaaaaaaah! My immediate reaction to one of the sweetest pictures I have ever seen.
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Oh my! Sloths have cute faces to start with and then add a baby face! Too cute!
Aww, I've never seen a baby sloth before. Does it take them fore ever to grow up? 😄 haha get it..
Sure! Sloth sprouts are pretty difficult to find, though. Once you plant your sprout, it should grow like a vine. Be sure to give it shade, water, and a strong support beam ^^
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Where's he at? By the time I get there, well he will still b right there 😂 😂 😂 So adorable!
Cody Looks Like A Giant Teddy Bear
The rate of growth of an organism has a direct impact on its ability to adapt to the environment. For instance, an increase in the rate of growth of fleshy parts of the fish fin would provide an opportunity for the fish to adapt more easily to terrestrial locomotory life than could a fish without this modified fin. Scientists believe that hence, it may play a role in evolution.
The Cutest Baby Meerkat You’ll Ever See
I've Never Seen A Baby Squirrel. I Am Not Disappointed
This Baby Penguin Looks Like An Angry Kiwi Fruit
This Baby Deer
One-Day-Old Puppies Tucked In Safe With Mama - So Beautiful
Billy The Endangered Baby Blue Pingu
Bet You've Never Seen A Newborn Bunny
I Never Really Considered The Fact That Crows Were Once Babies
A Wolf Pup Playing Is The Cutest Thing I've Seen All Day
In Case You're Having A Bad Day, Here's A Baby Okapi
Arthur Dent's only brother was long ago nibbled to death by an okapi. But what a way to go.
Adorable Baby Crab
This Baby Pangolin Wants To Talk To You About Something Important
A Baby Hippo
Newborn Baby Gorilla And Mother, Sydney
Happy momma. I know it's anthropomorphism, but she does look happy. Lovely portrait.
Smiling Newborn Lamb
This Baby Dolphin Getting A Lift On His Mother's Back
A Newborn Screech Owl
A Baby Warthog
Kangaroo Joey
Baby Raccoon Taking A Nap
Cutest Duckling Ever
Lil Mav At Work With Me
It's now CAT-PROPERTY! Go find another stool, my willing underling! Worship me, hooman!!! Bahawhaw!!!! 😼😼😼
The Adorableness Of Baby Meerkats
Newborn Puppy Fits In The Palm Of My Hand
Baby Bat-Eared Fox
I'm Not A Bowling Ball, I'm An Otter-Ball
Ok Where Do I Get One Of These?
A Cute Baby Jacana With Its Massive Legs
Haha! Look at its ridiculous feet! Looks like it’s trying on its mum’s shoes!
Newborn Giraffe Smiling
One Of Australia Zoo's Newest Explorers Popped His Head Out Of The Pouch This Week
Grateful for every koala. Scientists have to find a way to save the species.
Baby Fox
This Mother Squirrel Checking On The Newborn
Baby Axolotl
Baby Tapir
Bender is a lone wolf! A solitary eagle! A cuddly baby tapir! And that's why I love him!
This Is How A Newborn Corgi Paw Looks Like
Two Tiny Newborn Feathertail Gliders
If You've Never Seen Baby Hedgehogs, I'm Just Going To Leave This Right Here For You
Those spikes are really soft. I have cared for orphan ones in a shelter, giving them tiny bottles.
Adorable Baby Sugarglider
Baby sugar gliders are freakin adorable. And they sound like a car alarm. in an endearing way.
Baby Tree Kangaroo
What in the absolute cuteness is this?!? and Why have I never heard /seen one?
A 2 Week Old Lemming In A Spoon
Note: this post originally had 109 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
Omg, So much cuteness. Love this post. Thank you for sharing.
You don't . You pour it out through your nostrils and make it into a candle . It smells like blood , pain , death , and butterflies
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I think is the first time I've ever seen one of these articles where at least one of the pictures *wasn't* a doll/felt model being passed off as a real animal.
Hey Bored Panda, maybe don't shorten this list like all the others? Each picture is precious and deserves to be seen.
I really had to pull myself together to not upvote every single image
But the baby "warthog" still isn't a warthog, but probably a baby boar. Warthog are dark all over with little tails stuck straight up in the air.
Do not shorten the list, every animal,here is worth seeing, awwwww
I prefer the full article. Why would ANYONE want to limit how many cute, adorable animal babies one could see?!?
yes thank you i smiled at each one...............me: *smiles at posts my mom:"what are you doing?" me:* shows pic of baby hippo my mom:*passes out
Notice that a lot of these bbys are blepping. I love and live for a good blep.
Okay, I’m literally crying now form the cuteness. Like there are actual tears of joy at how adorable these are.
Thank you for sharing. I needed a dose of happiness today, and you must certainly gave it to me!
Such beautiful babies, my heart just melted, I love this post, so awesome , we need more post like this
They're beautiful but one comment... See all this cuteness fill my heart with love and I bet yours too, so my question is why do you keep eating and killing their mother's and father? It is very difficult to see how Our moral society is so wrong. Don't wanted to fight just thinking out loud.
Omg, So much cuteness. Love this post. Thank you for sharing.
You don't . You pour it out through your nostrils and make it into a candle . It smells like blood , pain , death , and butterflies
Load More Replies... I think is the first time I've ever seen one of these articles where at least one of the pictures *wasn't* a doll/felt model being passed off as a real animal.
Hey Bored Panda, maybe don't shorten this list like all the others? Each picture is precious and deserves to be seen.
I really had to pull myself together to not upvote every single image
But the baby "warthog" still isn't a warthog, but probably a baby boar. Warthog are dark all over with little tails stuck straight up in the air.
Do not shorten the list, every animal,here is worth seeing, awwwww
I prefer the full article. Why would ANYONE want to limit how many cute, adorable animal babies one could see?!?
yes thank you i smiled at each one...............me: *smiles at posts my mom:"what are you doing?" me:* shows pic of baby hippo my mom:*passes out
Notice that a lot of these bbys are blepping. I love and live for a good blep.
Okay, I’m literally crying now form the cuteness. Like there are actual tears of joy at how adorable these are.
Thank you for sharing. I needed a dose of happiness today, and you must certainly gave it to me!
Such beautiful babies, my heart just melted, I love this post, so awesome , we need more post like this
They're beautiful but one comment... See all this cuteness fill my heart with love and I bet yours too, so my question is why do you keep eating and killing their mother's and father? It is very difficult to see how Our moral society is so wrong. Don't wanted to fight just thinking out loud.
