What's the deadliest cute thing? (Or the cutest deadly thing?)

Eye beg to differ! :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Polar bear cubs.

Cute all over. Just adorable.

One bite, you could be dead.

Killer whales!

They are actually venomous although, as I understand it, the venom is not lethal to humans. Or rather the venom probably won’t kill you but the pain is supposedly so excruciating you may well kill yourself to put yourself out of misery.

I saw a nature show once, in which a diver started playing with a Blue Ring Octopus, rolling it over in her hands and petting its head. I thought, “*WTF *are you doing???

When she came out of the water, it turned out she had no idea the thing was poisonous, and was playing with it because it was just so adorable. Yeesh.

Can I be on the list? I’m cute as a bug. What’s deadly about me? Every time I snuggle with someone who has testicles, they get smashed. It’s not even an on purpose thing. It’s like I have magnets in feet, legs, elbows, knees…

Take your pick.

I’m surprised noone’s mentioned dingos yet. Alright they might not be the deadliest creatures but they hunt in packs and have been known to carry children away as well as attacking hikers http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/1998/04/05/dingo980405a.html
But look at the cute little doggie!! http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/images10/DINGOLindyontheprowl.jpg

Brilliant.

A sexy little Blonde, who has what it takes to take what you have.

Mogwai are adorable but they make terrible pets because they can become very aggressive towards humans if not cared for properly and they can reproduce rapidly as a feral population.

The Platypus might just qualify - its venomous spur not directly lethal to humans (but you can’t trust anything in Australia), and how cute it is depends on your sense of aesthetics.

Heh even before I knew anything about them I thought hippos were ugly looking critters and since I’ve seen a couple of wild life documentaries I can’t find anything cute about them at all. Aside from the all face ripping they might do to humans and sometimes hand out to each other there were the stink matches. It seems that a popular way for males to show off their domininance is to fart into the water and stir it up with their tails, the one who raises the biggest stench wins. Yuk.

Our friends at Cracked tackled this Cute but deadly. It seems like we are on the right track.

I suppose you’ve never had a bad photo taken?:wink:

Interesting coincidence. One of the columnists at my paper wrote a column last month entitled “Cute, but Deadly.” His nominee for the title: the slow loris. They’re not really so deadly to humans, but they are venomous mammals and they certainly peg the cute meter.

Here’s a YouTube video of a slow loris names Sonya (warning: plays music). My cats wish they could be that cute.

Gotta give it up for the Toxic Nudibranch Sea Slug. He comes with his own hat!

Hello Kitty with an M-16 or an AK-47

(That poor chihuahua at the first link is probably looking for someone to take him to the Humane Society for a mercy killing.)

We domesticated the wrong pets. :frowning: Cats are nowhere in the same universe of cute as a slow loris.

I would go with bears. We humans have anthropomorphize bears into cute cuddly things.

From “The Beverly Hillbillies”

A con man is trying to sell Jed a zoo. The con man is talking to Jed and he notices Elly Mae in the bear pit hugging one of the bears.

Con Man) Mr Clampett, you’re daughters in with the bears. Oh I can’t look, one hug from those powerful arms could mean the end

Jed) Hey Elly, be careful when you hug those bears you don’t hurt them