19 July 2012 @ 12:18 am
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Good evening (or morning, or afternoon, wherever timezone you may be in)! Completing the trifecta of cute, today we take a look at bunny babies. Here's a tip for you, though! That thing about 'if you handle a baby bunny, its mom won't accept it back because it smells of human'? That's actually pretty bunk. The real reason it's there is so that kids don't handle animals and accidentally hurt them, as kids are wont to do. If you see a baby bunny alone, it's also probably not been abandoned, chances are its mom has left it there believing it was a safe hiding spot and would intend to come back for it later. The best thing to do is just to leave wild animals as they are, unless they look or seem visibly hurt or enraged- then, do call someone to help! Or get yourself out of there, whichever is appropriate.


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Whew! That was a lot of cute, wasn't it? We're not done yet, though!



















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This awkward little baby is Araneus diadematus, otherwise known as the European garden spider and one of the most commonly seen orb weavers around. They're also known as the Cross Spider because of the patterns that form on their backs when they're fully grown. As babies, they're not often alone like the small thing there, and can be more frequently seen when they cluster up into small balls of babies and huddle together, like so:


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They're a lot tinier than joltiks are, but the way all of them ball together as babies, it's kind of cute (to me, at least)!

 
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