# I think I have found the cutest animal ever

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 3, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-have-found-the-cutest-animal-ever/692265 "2014-07-03T13:12:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-have-found-the-cutest-animal-ever/692265/21 "2014-07-04T06:28:09Z")

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[Baby sloth](http://www.maniacworld.com/baby-sloth-with-a-big-yawn.jpg)

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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-have-found-the-cutest-animal-ever/692265/22 "2014-07-04T07:36:58Z")

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apparently, [baby Leaf-footed bugs.](http://i.imgur.com/1MZwHNK.jpg)

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-have-found-the-cutest-animal-ever/692265/23 "2014-07-04T14:04:14Z")

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> [@Isamu](#):
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> Fennec.
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> [a little fennec fox photo | One Big Photo](http://onebigphoto.com/a-little-fennec-fox/)

And [they stack](http://cuteoverload.files.wordpress.com/fennec_action-3533.jpg) for easy storage.

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**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-have-found-the-cutest-animal-ever/692265/24 "2014-07-04T16:51:19Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> Here they’re called _tapacara_, literally “cover your face,” because when threatened they [raise their razor-sharp claws in front of their face.](http://anthropometaphors.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/silky-anteater21.jpeg)

A most lovable beastie. If I have things rightly, the same creature, _Cyclopes didactylus_, is alternatively known as the pygmy anteater. It features under that name in Gerald Durrell’s book _Three Singles To Adventure_, about collecting animals for zoos, long ago, in what is now Guyana. Durrell acquired a silky / pygmy anteater or two, and was very taken with them. He mentions that a local name for the creature was “Tank-e-God”: the raising-claws-in-front-of-face, was seen as looking as though the animal were praying.

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**Author:** ![Sandwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@Sandwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sandwood)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-have-found-the-cutest-animal-ever/692265/25 "2014-07-05T00:40:22Z")

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[Baby aardwolf](http://www.arkive.org/aardwolf/proteles-cristata/image-G75293.html)

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