20 animals you almost never see as babies

[Tanuki]

https://www.thedodo.com/animals-never-see-baby-pictures-1151184534.html?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_545603
Even the baby hyena is surprisingly cute, when it's still too young to bite your face off!
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[NYC_SKP]

1. I believe all baby things are cute or else they would be eaten.

How gawky baby birds get away with it is beyond me.

[seveneyes]

2. The little White Duck has no clue

[shenmue]

3. Awwww

[Rhiannon12866]

4. They are all so cute! Just look at the porcupine and the aardvark!!

[Tom Ripley]

8. That aardvark is aadorable!

[Rhiannon12866]

11. Isn't he??! I'd never seen a baby aardvark...

[csziggy]

5. OK, I have to take exception to their list - I've seen several of the babies

They say are never seen!

Chinchillas - When I was a kid we had chinchillas as pets. A friend of my Dad's had been sold a pair to raise for their skins. He already raised rabbits for their meat and skins and thought chinchillas would be a good addition. In Florida with no air conditioning for their habitation chinchillas did not grow thick coats. So my Dad got the pair from him to be our pets. Then we found out the other problem with chinchillas - they will chew their way out of nearly any cage. They chewed through the 2x4" wooden frame of the cage Dad built, through the hardware cloth he wrapped the next 2x4" frame in, though the 1/8" thick sheet metal he wrapped the next frame in. Meanwhile, they made terrible pets - they bite and they are really hard to catch when they get loose. They had two babies while we had them - cute little guys that were slightly tamer than the parents. Eventually they got loose and disappeared into the swamp next door. Since no chinchillas were seen again, they were not a successful invasive species - though they would have been more entertaining Florida residents than the pythons in South Florida!

Snakes - We caught ring neck snake babies from that swamp next door. Cute little guys, very tame, easy pets. The biggest nuisance was catching crickets to feed them so usually after a few days we'd let them loose in the swamp.

Skunks - As a kid I'd go out back and play with the cute black and white kitties in the back field. Mom would come out to get me and call my name very softly - my "kitties" were spotted skunks. The babies were very friendly and I was small and quiet enough that the parents never got agitated. A few years later when I'd started school I came home one afternoon to a terrible smell. One of the skunks had gotten into the garbage can and was trapped. Mom had called all the vets in town to see if they would de-scent it so I could have it as a pet, but they wanted nothing to do with it. The skunk got upset when Dad tipped the can over to release it - but Dad used a long pole so he didn't get squirted. The smell lingered for a while but the skunks moved away after that.

Armadillos - Plenty of them, adult and babies, around. The babies look just like miniature adults so if they aren't with their parents, you can't tell the size. They are just as cute as they can be!

Hamsters, guinea pigs and rats - Friends have had those over the years and often ended up with unintended babies.

Hedgehogs - LOTS of baby hedgehogs on the internet - where have these guys been?

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. I was at a party once

There was a chinchilla there. He was sitting on the coffee table, smoking a cigarette.

True story.

[Tanuki]

23. OK then, did you ever see a baby tamarin?

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[csziggy]

24. No - and that is adorable! n/t

[IcyPeas]

6. awww, the little camel.....

[d_legendary1]

9. One day I want to own an Armadillo

and call it Army. Just cuz.

[Behind the Aegis]

10. I have seen most of those, but never the baby hyena...how cute.

The baby hamster is likely not a baby, but at least two to three weeks old. Baby hamsters are like hairless peanuts. I guess it depends on the flexibility of the word though.

If someone wants to see an UGLY baby, try the baby Gouldian finch. Holy shit, that thing looks like it is from a different planet!

[petronius]

12. Too cute! I'll nominate another, the baby American coot

We see ducklings a lot, but despite the ubiquity of coots I don't see the chicks that often...

[Tanuki]

13. Aaw, that coot is cute! It looks really different from the adult.

I noticed that the baby pigeons in the link didn't really resemble adult pigeons, but oddly enough strongly show the genetic link between pigeons and the extinct dodo bird.
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[hifiguy]

22. That pic gives me the creeps.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. Oh my goodness! What an unusual tiny thing! Very cute, but it hardly looks real!

Good to see you, my friend!

[Tipperary]

14. Oh squeee!

I should never have clicked onto this thread!

[3catwoman3]

16. How about...

...squirrels?

[ohheckyeah]

18. I live very rural

and never see baby squirrels

[azurnoir]

25. I think they stay in the nest until sort of teenage size

I live urban but last summer there was a squirrel raiding a suet block I had out for birds and just as I was about to chase her off she flipped around and she had about 10 swollen teats, so I sighed and left her alone -figured she needed the extra calories

[ohheckyeah]

27. I love

watching squirrels - they're smart and comical.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. Here's one....

Cute huh?

Oh wait. That's the adult.

Here's the baby:



AAAAAAHHHH!!!! Kill it!!! Kill it with FIRE!!!!

[sinkingfeeling]

19. The Chinchilla, skunk, and beaver babies are adorable!

[paulkienitz]

20. I think your "chipmunk" was actually a golden mantled ground squirrel.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. I want a baby armadillo!!!!!!!

I'm in loooove!!!!!!!

[Hoyt]

26. There was a baby hyena on Letterman some time ago. Really cute little animal.

[marle35]

28. Just in case anyone hasn't seen baby gentoo penguins

OK, so we've seen baby penguins before. But they're usually emperor or king. I need an excuse to post these!

[Tanuki]

29. And here's a baby pygmy marmoset

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[Iwillnevergiveup]

30. So very cute

Their mothers should all be proud!

K&R

[Contrary1]

31. Talk about cute...

[wryter2000]

32. Baby snake!

Did you see how tiny that snake was? I got a baby corn snake once, and he wasn't much bigger than a worm, but the pattern was perfect.

I still have him fourteen years later. He's sitting in a cage right next to me as I type.

[valerief]

33. I thought baby pigeons was a myth.

[cemaphonic]

34. Who would think that this svelte, handsome little lizard

would grow up to be a lumpy brown, bacteria infested monster:

[Tanuki]

35. Or that a sweet little wolverine cub

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could turn out like this:
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[IDemo]

36. Speaking of that, the Boise Peregrine falcon chicks are doing nicely

http://peregrinefund.org/webcam-peregrine