Animals

Elephant shrews are totally underrated.

Probably the world’s cutest kitten.

Cold weather + less daylight + being this cute = best sleep ever!

Uninvited guest during a cross-country bicycle ride.

These guys need help too.

Meet Kiara, the first ever Liliger Cat in the world. Her dad is an African lion and mother is a liger (cross between a lion and a tiger). She was born in a Russian zoo and was raised in a …

Female terrier Meysi is 3 months old and weighs only 3.25 oz (92 g).

New home for the cat.

Guy builds a large terrarium for his pet snake.

Baboons are hazard to tourists in Cape Town, South Africa.

The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) is a crocodilian of the family Gavialidae that is native to the Indian subcontinent and also called gavial and fish-eating crocodile. Unlike most crocodilians, the gharial is not a man-eater and tends to be very sensitive …

This cat adopted orphaned baby hedgehogs feeding and nurturing them as if they were her own.

Photographer Seth Casteel explores an underwater world where dogs reveal their fierce cuteness and their general fierceness.

Shishi-Maru is a Scottish Fold cat. He is becoming famous on Instagram.

Non-mammals really get shafted in cute animal fandom.

The only thing more delightful than an animated Disney animal acting cute on screen is the same loveable animal imitating them in real life.

Cats model pin up girls to hilarious effect!

Park rangers found this seven-and-a-half month old baby elephant close to death in the Vwaza Wildlife Reserve in Malawi.

These fluffy little cubs were born at the Parque Loro Zoo in Puebla.

Emoticats.

Buttons the puppy was the runt of the litter and was rejected by her mother, but at Battersea Cats and Dogs Home, he found someone who loves him unconditionally: Kitty the kitten.

“These were the greatest bathtimes of our lives.”

In order to reintroduce the pandas to the wild — and avoid having any human influence on them.

Husky compound in Northern Maine with 30 Siberian Huskies.

Wow.

A deer in the Idaho zoo rescued the small animal that he found trapped in his drinking water, lifting it gently out to safety.