I think I have found the cutest animal ever

From a thread on a local message board where someone had one walk in their neighbors house:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=silky+anteater&qpvt=silky+anteater&FORM=IGRE

ladies and gentleman I give you the Silky Anteater!

I like how one of the first replies in that message board was, as an answer to “what animal is this?”, “Dinner”. :smiley:

I was more amused that their response to a wild animal walking into the house was to grab it with bare hands!

My counter-nomination: the momonga or Japanese dwarf flying squirrel.

Rabies free zone, people are very lax! But I don’t know if I could resist either.

Wow, even their animals look like anime.

Exactly!

And even in a rabies-free area, I’d still be worried about being bitten - it still hurts, after all. That is awfully cute, though. If it wasn’t afraid about people I suspect I might not be able to resist petting the critter.

It would be very hard to get bitten by a silky anteater. :wink: Or any anteater, after all.

OK, scratched. :stuck_out_tongue: They do have claws.

True, but then look at its claws.

Yup, scratched is possible.

Also, there is bat-transmitted rabies, Trinidad is not 100% rabies free.

Here they’re called tapacara, literally “cover your face,” because when threatened they raise their razor-sharp claws in front of their face.

In most photos they’re squinting against the light, but when they have their eyes fully open they’re even cuter.

One had a bit part in the Werner Herzog movie Aguirre, the Wrath of God.

Since threads like this always devolve into people trying to out cute-animaling one another anyway (not that that’s a bad thing necessarily), here’s the pygmy jerboa.

Oh, and the desert rainfrog. This one must be watched with sound, as the cuteness is in what I believe is its threat response…

It’s a head with legs. :smiley:

And its cousin, the Long Eared Jerboa
Ears with legs

Came for axolotl, but leaving pleased.

I admit, the silky anteater is pretty cute, but the momonga and the desert rain frog are flat-out irrestible. And irrestible is not a word I would usually apply to frogs.

Personally, I like the tarsier.

My cats found that noise very interesting…

Awe look at this little cutie, the Quokka!

Fennec.