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Rabbit.
capybara? :)
naked mole rat
coonass
Rabbit. Seen those many times.
Clearly, it is newborn half human, half Rabbitoid space alien! Night of the Lepus returns, guard your carrots!
These space invaders may look like something which just came out of a womb@, but they reproduce like rabbits!
Beware the Humabbit space aliens, smart as a person, toothed like a rabbit, and out reproducing humanity!
Oh, wait, I guess I’ve been watching The Trouble with Tribbles or something.
I have to be in the mood for newborns or they all look ugly.
Speaking of ugly newborns, google “ugly newborn” but instead of “enter” hit “images” in the upper left – a collection of photos of the less than beautiful babies.
Myself, I simply find it hard to view human babies as cute. Sorry, I just don’t feel very ga-ga-goo-goo often.
But I am very interested in early developmental theories. The stuff on animals is more interesting because when people write about other people, ideas not based on science start to creep into their writings.
One of the areas that I like to read about are things which are neither genetic, nor aquired, but truely congenital – they are due to ratios of pre-natal hormones. Neoteny.org has interesting ideas on this – not all of them do I agree with, like dancing our way into high IQs.
But “cuteness” and “uglyness” are not in the object, but are reactions within the observer. So why do some people find naked baby rabbits and atrical baby pigeons cute, while other people prefer precocial ducklings, and fully furred newborn hares?
And what about people who don’t think puppies are cute until they are 6 months old, and who say, of a newborn human baby, bring the baby back in 18 years and I will meet your offspring then?
And what of people attracted only to living things at the other end of the scale? Like tigers, stallions, and beyond normal Amazons and Warriors?
One idea, which I have been mulling over the past couple of days, and found a label for on neoteny.org was “acceleration” the opposite of neoteny. There was a science fiction story about this, where a scientist used this theory to turn crocodiles or alligators into dragons – the idea was, that like people who believe that some dinosuars evolved into birds, others became gators, and he used hormones to dis-evolve them back to what they were.
And yes, I did enjoy The Island of Doctor Moreau.
Dang you say it shouldn’t be too hard, yet I thought it was a pig… I guess my love for dogs and cats does not qualify me for an animal expert.