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
The babies don't have functioning stink glands until they're about 3 weeks old.
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Someone gave me a grown skunk that sprayed him as he was getting it out of the live trap. He gave me tha cage he kept it in fot months ok n top of cement. Feed it cat food ! Some raw meat,... as soon as i put it in a pen with a dirt floor the smell left. It was not pet quality but not completely wild. After 3 months it got out. As far as I know it might still be here but I've never seen or smelled it around.
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I had a guy friend who had a certified (legal) pet skunk. He bought her from a breeder & they surgically removed the scent gland. Once removed the skunk loses all its defenses; hence, if he/she gets out you can, unfortunately, know that they won't "make it" in the wild. I also noted upon holding "Mandy" that she still had what I considered a foul & unpleasant smell...certainly not as ripe as the all too familiar one we all know. It is musky but not in the "good" sense. I also heard that juvenile skunks have bad "squirting" control and their stench is heads above worse than their adult counterparts. Ugh....cute, yes...stinky....absolutely!!! And my son's 3rd grade teacher was paid an unwelcome visit by one who managed to enter their house via the "cat door".The spray was so intense that it caused teacher & wife to vomit IMMEDIATELY. They were fraught with tearing out the floor & lower cabinets as the smell permeated said objects. They had to get a hotel for a month during renovation.
I have some pass through my yard and they don’t stink normally just when they are threatened and let off a stink bomb.I like them
This little skunk looks just like Pokey, a baby skunk my dad had rescued when its mother got hit by a car. My Dad thought we should keep her as a pet since it was motherless at a very young age and got the local vet to remove her scent glands... Pokey lived with us for about a year. She had not been spaded and when a handsome male skunk came a-courting the following spring, "nature called" and she left us for this wild guy...
This happened 60 years ago. There weren't any wildlife recovery centers back then where we lived. My father had her scent glands removed because he thought that the baby was too young to survive without its mother and that the only option was to keep her as a pet. We actually had to bottle feed her for awhile
Load More Replies... Ok, add to my want list. A fox kit & a baby skunk & probably everyone else in this bunch of pictures ⚠️‼⚠️
Baby skunks aren't too stinky. I had one once. They act JUST like kittens.
Babies don't smell, not sure if their scent glands are under developed or just can't spray skunky scent yet. Lol
They do make great pets! Unfortunately, after a year long trial, I still could not get my dogs to accept him, so I re-homed him to a great place. He gave the best hugs!
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
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
There's A Newborn Lynx At The Nashville Zoo
Baby Fox Taking A Nap
A Baby Turtle Coming Out From The Egg
Hyena Cubs
Baby Flamingo
The Quoll, A Carnivorous Marsupial From Australia/New Guinea As A Baby
A Baby Tank Puppy Was Born At The Miami Zoo
Giraffe Calf Born At Kansas City Zoo
We Need More Baby Seal Around Here
Newborn White Lion Cub
Funny Baby Panda
Baby Dik-Dik’s One Of The Smallest And Most Adorable Animals On The Earth
A Newborn Elephant Seal Pup Only Minutes Old
He had seen things. He has the knowledge of the entire universe...
I Often Substitute Teach At A Small Farm Town Nearby. Here’s The Ag’s Class Current “Project”
She was born premature, close to 2 lbs, when most are born closer to 10 lbs.
Newborn Fox
A Cute Newborn Lamb
This Tiny Fox Has Been Visiting Our Garden Every Day And Wants To Be Friends
Baby Swordfish. This Little Guy Can Grow Over 1000 Lbs
Mommy Left Her Newborn To Go Feed For The Day So She'll Probably Come Back For Her Tonight
But until then we have a cute little deer curled up outside our patio! It took all my will to not pet it.
Great job on resisting❣️ I met a couple who saw a fawn and took it home with them. Needless to say, I was livid. That little baby is adorable❤️❤️
A Baby Otter From A Zoo I Visited
Tiny Hummingbird Drinking Some Juice
Three Newborn Siberian Tigers
Far left: "Hear the mighty beast, unworthy mortals! Fear me and my siblings!" 🐯
Newborn Baby Bison In The Carpathian Mountains
Baby Flying Squirrel
Found on a job site while removing a large old tree. Mama was nowhere to be found, so my co-worker rehabilitated this little guy. His name is Rocco.
Just A Baby Hippo
What do you mean "just" a baby hippo. He/She is beautiful in every way. 5 years from now they're the "Boss"!
Pet Baby Dinosaur (Tokay Gecko)
I Found This Guy All Alone In The Grass
Southern Pudu Fawn
My Sleepy Newborn Mini Donkey
My Daughters Fawn Friend
Saved This Adorable Baby Opossum From My Dog. Look At That Face
This Newborn Calf Is Curious About My Cellphone
He Likes To Watch The Babies Take Their Bath
My Fiancé Befriended An Overly Photogenic 9 Day Old Baby Goat
Ever Seen A Bucket Of Baby Sea Turtles? Got To Release Them Last Night Into The Ocean
Newborn Panda Kitty
Newborn Sidewinder In A Root Beer Bottlecap
Baby Giraffe Loves To Smile
This Picture I Took Of My Baby Goose
Even Though I'm A Baby I'm Terrifying Akubi
I Had A Bad Day Today. Then I Looked Up Baby Meerkats And My Day Was A Little Less Bad
A Newborn Turtle Touches The Sea For The First Time
A Newborn Armadillo
Newborn Penguin
Baby Red-Bellied Short-Necked Turtle Has Moves
Our Goat Had Babies Yesterday
Everyone Loves A Newborn
I Did A Newborn Photoshoot For My Little Rescue Squirrel, Cardboard. I Know I'm Insane, But It Turned Out Pretty Cute
My Hedgehog Had The Cutest Babies Last Night
A Newborn Antarctic Fur Seal Pup Perches Itself On Top Of A Mound Of Tussock Grass. South Georgia, Antarctica
My Father Likes To Take Photos Of His Newborn Deers. He Just Send Me This Photo
Baby Bunnies
Favorite Part About My Job? Newborn Puppies
Baby Iguana Hanging Out With Its Mom
That is not a baby iguana! It's a species of lizard that eats parasites off of iguanas. I'm trying to google the name of the species without success so far - perhaps someone else knows?
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.
