9 Animals You Didn’t Know Were Cute Until #CuteOff Happened
We weigh in on the critical question of critter cuteness with in-house expert Jonathan Kolby.
A fierce competition has been raging on Twitter, with rivals vying for attention and factions picking their champions.
The competition? A #CuteOff. Instigated by Anne Hilborn, the same ecologist who started the recent #JunkOff hashtag that inspired scientists to post pictures of increasingly incredible critter genitalia, the Cute Off gained steam when the Herpetology Society of Ireland, frankly, brought it.
National Geographic, as you may know, has long been a connoisseur of cute. (Check out these ‘dorable duos).
So with #TeamMammal, #TeamHerpetology, #TeamOrnithology, #TeamIchthyology, and even #TeamExtinct (they’re dead in the water) duking it out on Twitter, we’ve decided to weigh in on this friendly fight with our own expert arbiter of adorable, National Geographic Young Explorer Jonathan Kolby.
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