And in today's cute critter news roundup...

[MAK]

  Tigers are so darn gorgeous! Thanks Donna! 

[Dumpsterkitty]

32 Pictures That Will Make You Say Awwwwwwww







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[Donna]

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!  

[MAK]

32 Pictures That Will Make You Say Awwwwwwww







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I'll take one each of the piglets! OINK!

[Annette]

Cuteness alert!

[Donna]

http://youtu.be/6ntDYjS0Y3w A canine chorus barks a familiar tune. Keep an eye out for our 2012 Game Day commercial—it will all make sense. Love Star Wars and Volkswagen?

[Shaky]

Not nearly as good as last year's.

[Dumpsterkitty]

Baby aardvark takes first steps in Antwerp zoo

A two-week-old ant-eating aardvark has been unveiled at Antwerp zoo in Belgium. Little Nuru, which means 'light' in Swahili, is only the tenth baby aardvark born in the zoo in more than 50 years. Xavier Beghin, a spokesperson for the zoo said it was difficult to get aardvarks to breed.

Aardvark mothers can be rather nonchalant with their offspring and not very loving, he added. At night, accidents happen with mothers knocking their babies with their powerful feet. The mothers also often do not produce enough milk so their young struggle to put on weight.
It was the baby aardvark's mother Curly's fourth attempt to give birth. Her first three babies did not survive. The spokesman said she may have learnt her lessons, adding Curly had become very protective towards little Nuru since the baby was born on January 6.

During the first two weeks of her life, she was kept under 24-hour surveillance. Mr Beghin said that it was too early to see if baby Nuru is a boy or a girl. An elusive, nocturnal creature, aardvarks are rarely seen in the wild. They live mainly in sub-saharan Africa.

By The Telegraph UK via Arbroath

[Annette]

A video about funny cats

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf_IIbT8HGk#ws

[MAK]

That was great Annette thanks! 

[Donna]

http://youtu.be/7vBo0ptYJNs  Watch for the little birdie! 

[Donna]

http://youtu.be/UlsJHKLshVk

[Dumpsterkitty]

Snoring Dormouse with sound - listen
Things I did not know before viewing this adorable video shot by Surrey Wildlife Trust Mammal Project Officer Dave Williams:

1) The dormouse, a little rodent species you'll find in Britain, hibernate in the winter in nests they hide on the ground.

2) The dormouse spends up to one-third of its life in hibernation, and typically begin that winter "sleep" when the first frost hits, and their food sources are gone.

3) They loose about a quarter of their body weight during hibernation.

4) The word "dormouse" comes from the Anglo-Norman dormeus, which means "sleepy (one)"

You can donate to support the Surrey Wildlife Trust's nature conservation work here.

via Boing Boing
(via @joeljohnson, photo: Dave Williams, Surrey Wildlife Trust)

[Donna]

Sure it's not a SNORE-mouse? That was way off the charts cute!! 

[birdmusic]

The Dormouse: [talking in his sleep] You might as well say "I breathe when I sleep" is the same as "I sleep when I breathe."
Mad Hatter: Well, it IS the same thing with you!