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I am fairly convinced that Red Pandas are not real.
OHMYGOD
THEY ARE LIKE CHILDREN WITH TAILS
Animal abuse is still animal abuse, whether it looks ‘cute’ or not
Kittens are so cute ahhhhh! 😍
Wittle whiskers! @little-magical-panda @braidsandbruisedknees
Oh he’s handsome
I think this guy is actually leusistic, because his eyes appear to be light instead of red and his coat has different shades of coloring that you wouldn’t see in an albino animal, but are normal for leusistic coloring. Leucism is caused by changes in the amounts of multiple types of pigment, where as albanism is caused by just a loss of melanin.
This is actually an April Fools joke that the internet, desperate for cute animal content, took seriously. The Kruger National Park posted it on their social media, and it was so popular (and convincing) that Business Insider actually did an article about it. A bunch of legitimate news outlets even fell for it!
But the best part from the BI article is this: “[The OP]’s favourite reaction was from a Facebook follower, who “reported” that the harmonious scene had a rather unfortunate conclusion: the elephant sneezed and the cub was found 18 kilometers away.”
Here are some sassy animals for everyone’s cute animal needs
Chinese Kids Are Getting Their Parents, Their Parents’ Parents, And Their Parents’ Parents’ Parents Involved In A Meme
There’s a new meme in China, and it’s very wholesome. The challenge, called “four generations,” includes four generations of family members making an appearance, from youngest to oldest. A son would call his dad, who then calls his dad, who then calls his dad. And a daughter would call her mom, who calls her mom, who calls her mom. The results are super cute.
The videos are being shared on video app Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, under the challenge name, “Four generations under one roof.”
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This is legit the cutest and most wholesome meme omg
This is so cute and I’m amazed at how many older generations they have
This so adorable 😩
Oh this is so pure 😭😭😭
Not only do I run into people who think insects and other arthropods don’t qualify as animals, I run into people who know that they’re “technically” animals but they’re of the “opinion” they shouldn’t be.
What are people actually judging by here, though? Intelligence? Because there are definitely vertebrates like us with barely more brainpower than a cockroach, and then there are invertebrates like octopuses, as genetically distant from us as a cockroach but intelligent enough to learn people’s faces and solve puzzles. Are they going by anatomy? That an arthropod is supposedly just “too different” physically to be lumped with us as animals?
Let me show those folks something:
Here’s the animal kingdom. The giant pale blue is all the arthropods, the insects and spiders and crabs and things.
The pale green sliver is the chordata, which contains just three groups. One of those three groups is the vertebrata, literally every single animal with a skeleton: humans, horses, eels, owls, snakes, frogs, all the things people apparently think are “real” animals.
One of the other three types of chordata, your closest possible cousins, are these things, the lancelets:
Just like you, they have a notochord, which during embryonic development becomes your spinal column.
The third kind of chordate, and actually even closer to you genetically than a lancelet, is a tunicate, and here’s an example of one kind of tunicate:
This is a colony of several thousand little bags with mouths and anuses and virtually no other organs. As larvae, they resemble tadpoles and also have a notochord like you once did in the womb, but then they absorb it as they mature. These are our nearest cousins on the planet.
Now unlike the mature tunicate, an insect is a creature with a clearly defined head, jaws, legs, feet, eyes, a complete brain, practically anthropomorphic compared to those bags of filter-feeding jelly, yet it’s the bags of filter feeding jelly that share an immediate ancestor with you. If “bugs” are too weird to be animals then what the hell are we?
Basically if you’re going to say an insect shouldn’t be considered an animal, you may as well say a cactus shouldn’t be considered a plant because it looks funny.
