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May 28, 2009

There's A New Cutest Animal In The World

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This is what happens when you leave the internet for two measly days: the internet debuts a heretofore un-famous cutest animal video. Presenting (if you haven't already seen it), the Pygmy Jerboa, the world's smallest rodent who looks like old Jasper Beardly from The Simpsons on meth. Pygmy Slow Loris? What Pygmy Slow Loris? This thing is one tickling away from Cutest Animal status.

I want that to come to me. (Via Buzzfeed.)

Posted by Lindsay at 9:40 AM in ,
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I'm going to have nightmares about that thing.

Posted by: ryanspacey profile link at 05/28/09 9:58 AM  | Reply
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Hell yeah, me too.

SCIENCE, WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE!

Shit, get ready for some goddamned Pygmy Jerboa: Salvation. Coming this fall, after they've fuckin taken our souls.

Posted by: An American Patriot profile link  in reply to  ryanspacey's comment at 05/30/09 10:27 AM  | Reply
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Cute, but not Pygmy Slow Loris cute.

Posted by: Deezey profile link at 05/28/09 10:06 AM  | Reply
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is this "animal" actually CGI?

Posted by: bryan profile link at 05/28/09 10:15 AM  | Reply
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I don't want to sound like a hater (I do want to sound like a hater) but I think that thing is gross and weird.

Posted by: Jenn profile link at 05/28/09 10:23 AM  | Reply
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Damn, I wish I had never seen that :( Not cute at all. Scary.

Posted by: Sal at 05/28/09 10:33 AM  | Reply
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aw lindsay we missed you

Posted by: nesten profile link at 05/28/09 10:34 AM  | Reply
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DO NOT WANT

Posted by: XOXO at 05/28/09 10:41 AM  | Reply
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Cute in a David Cronenberg kind of way.

Posted by: RobinRubbermaid profile link at 05/28/09 11:00 AM  | Reply
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cute as some benjamin buttons balls!

Posted by: genevieveyorke profile link  in reply to  RobinRubbermaid's comment at 05/28/09 2:40 PM  | Reply
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lindsay - you've seen NOTHING until you've seen the sugar glider in action - even its name is scrumtrulescent.

Posted by: Becca profile link at 05/28/09 11:15 AM  | Reply
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i could watch this sugar glider video for hours. the guy's voice is like a thousand therapy sessions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng5RVworlNY

Posted by: rachel  in reply to  Becca's comment at 06/01/09 10:06 PM  | Reply
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See, where one person sees cute, another person sees one of the more horrifying thing to ever live. You say tomato, I say incredibly disturbing tomato.

Posted by: talkingstove profile link at 05/28/09 11:23 AM  | Reply
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My wife works with lab animals and told me this animal has a genetic disorder and has a ton of health-related issues. Plus it's very dehydrated and it's hands like slightly disfigured. Very cute.

Posted by: mattabramson profile link at 05/28/09 11:26 AM  | Reply
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personally I wish it didn't have arms, per my assumption after the picture.

Posted by: joy profile link at 05/28/09 11:38 AM  | Reply
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Yuck, try again Lindsay.

Posted by: Calliwell profile link at 05/28/09 11:41 AM  | Reply
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oh my gosh! It hops like a rabbit! IT HOPS JUST LIKE A RABBIT!
hee hee

Posted by: Elliot profile link at 05/28/09 12:06 PM  | Reply
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Looks like something out of Jabberwocky. Borogove? Slithy tove?

Posted by: Liz at 05/28/09 12:17 PM  | Reply
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Agreed! Put some spectacles on that thing. That is some Alice in Wonderland shit.

Posted by: natasha  in reply to  Liz's comment at 05/28/09 1:34 PM  | Reply
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Well I think it's cute. But it looks like something my baby cousins would've made in art class. It's eyes look too big for it's head!

Posted by: Ivan Idea at 05/28/09 12:22 PM  | Reply
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awwww, i love it! i want a hundred of them.

Posted by: eliza at 05/28/09 12:37 PM  | Reply
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Tee hee! Baby shouldn't be!

Posted by: James at 05/28/09 12:48 PM  | Reply
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Anything classified as a rodent is automatically not cute in my eyes. This is no exception.

Posted by: Julia profile link at 05/28/09 12:49 PM  | Reply
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My first thought was of those abominations the bully kid from Toy Story puts together.

But I love a good Jasper reference.

Posted by: mk profile link at 05/28/09 1:32 PM  | Reply
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"We've bred it down to just eyes and ears."

Posted by: Punky Brewster profile link at 05/28/09 1:39 PM  | Reply
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I was so glad to find out that that WASN'T a beakless bird, which is what it totally looked like in the little picture thing.

Posted by: indybree profile link at 05/28/09 2:50 PM  | Reply
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When I first saw this video I refused to believe this was a real animal. Get out of here, Pygmy.

Posted by: Gina profile link at 05/28/09 3:41 PM  | Reply
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How are we not all behind the newfound existence/animation of an early-era finger-sized Muppet? That jerboa knows that haters be buggin'.

Posted by: Chadams at 05/28/09 3:49 PM  | Reply
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Put a cane in it's hand and you've got a baby Splinter:

http://www.animezu.com/Anime/cels/pics/Teenage%20Mutant%20Ninja%20Turtles/Splinter/splinter01.jpg

Posted by: the dude profile link at 05/28/09 4:45 PM  | Reply
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Fuck, Lebowski. I was thinking the same thing.

Posted by: Daniel  in reply to  the dude's comment at 05/28/09 10:47 PM  | Reply
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Silly Pygmy Jerboa, falling off that scale.

Posted by: Anono profile link at 05/28/09 5:00 PM  | Reply
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AAAAH Kill it kill it killitkillitkillit.

I like my cute animals delightfully plump; not weird and skinny with gigantic heads.

Posted by: J at 05/28/09 5:36 PM  | Reply
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My dog is definitely like ten bajillion million trillion times cuter than that thing
and also i wouldn't be able to squash her with a misplaced foot or elbow

Posted by: sarah palin profile link at 05/28/09 6:12 PM  | Reply
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IT'S A PYGMY PUFF!!! HARRY POTTER IS REAAAAALLLL!

Posted by: ZillaMonster profile link at 05/28/09 8:03 PM  | Reply
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It's a weepul come to life! Photobucket

Posted by: smooshfacedcat profile link at 05/29/09 12:11 AM  | Reply
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Augh! It looks just like Kingdok from the comic Bone come to life:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&um=1&sa=1&q=bone+kingdok&btnG=Search+Images&aq=f&oq=

And Kingdok creeps me the fuck out.

Posted by: sophia profile link at 05/29/09 12:15 AM  | Reply
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First, the piosn in the slow loris' elbows, and now the pigmy jerboa genetic disorders: Being extremely cute has a horrible, horrible price.

Posted by: JBIZARRE at 05/29/09 9:10 AM  | Reply
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Whoa, I just made one of these in Spore last night and now it's a real thing?
Someone help me figure out how to make my powers work for me.

Posted by: Patrick M at 05/29/09 10:30 AM  | Reply
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That thing looks like a cross between a chick and a hamster. My mind is reeling.

Posted by: Abby at 05/29/09 3:04 PM  | Reply
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That is an alien. We have confirmed life exists beyond Earth. Creepy creepy creepy.

Posted by: PajamaSquid profile link at 05/29/09 11:28 PM  | Reply
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Does it make a sound? Can I pet it?

Posted by: A Fant TND profile link at 06/01/09 12:51 PM  | Reply
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