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Whimsy: teeny-weeny echidnas

By on September 7, 2012

For Mary, who I’m sure already knows that “puggle” is a commonly used term for infant echidnas before they grow their spines (I didn’t know that until half an hour ago). There is apparently some controversy over this nomenclature, but I’m gonna go ahead and use it for this post at least.

A close up shot of cupped pale-skinned human hands carefully cradling a small grey baby mammal with a long snout

Brigalow, an orphaned echidna puggle being hand-raised at Western Plains Zoo in 2009

A tiny echidna puggle nuzzles at a sponge full of milk, cradled by a zoo worker's hands

Spongebob, an orphaned puggle found inside its dead mother's pouch and taken to the Australian Reptile Park zoo

An older echidna baby with some spines beginning to appear, cupped in a pair of hands

This one's a bit older, with spines beginning to show

A human hand with open palm has three tiny hedgehog babies resting on it

Beware imitations! These cuties are hedgehogs, not echidnas

Please share links to anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you: think of these threads as a brain-bleach repository.

I think this week calls for a bunch of Cute Overload links, if you don’t have anything more unusual to hand.

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11 responses to “Whimsy: teeny-weeny echidnas”

  1. Ali
    Ali September 7, 2012 at 11:13 am |

    Gawd. They’s ridonculous.
    I just slipped into a-cute coma!

  2. tigtog
    tigtog September 7, 2012 at 11:55 am | *

    Did you click-through on the hedgehog photo to see the hedgehog-gallery? The one in the eggcup should be illegal.

  3. tigtog
    tigtog September 8, 2012 at 8:13 am | *

    I just posted about this on Otterday, but it deserves to live here as well: interactive Google Doodle today for Star Trek’s 46th anniversary!

    They haven’t added it to the Doodles database yet, but it will probably be there in 24 hours, for those who miss it today.

  4. Aqua, of the Questioners
    Aqua, of the Questioners September 8, 2012 at 3:18 pm |

    There’s a place that’s made Nyan Cat Icecream:
    http://thephoenix.com/boston/food/137999-on-the-cheap-nyan-cat-ice-cream-from-toscaninis/

    They were serious about getting it right:

    We spent a lot of time talking about how the heck we were going to do this, and we decided to downgrade the cat idea and just focus on the fact that it’s just a Pop-Tart with colored speed lines.

  5. orlando
    orlando September 8, 2012 at 8:07 pm |

    Baby hedgehogs already look like dessert – seems a bit risky to keep photographing them with food like that.

  6. tigtog
    tigtog September 9, 2012 at 8:02 am | *

    Aaand baby hedgehog fits in a spoon!
    a baby hedgehog is curled in the bowl of a silver spoon with its face and paws facing upwards

  7. Kirst
    Kirst September 9, 2012 at 8:02 pm |

    I’m on cute overload. Baby reptiles and anything in a marsupial/meetkat/otter I’m awash in a sea of cuteness!

  8. tigtog
    tigtog September 10, 2012 at 6:34 am | *

    Cute Overload is a very superior brand of brain bleach, Kirst! If you find something spectacularly squee-licious, do post the page-link here (not just the image URL) and then the mods can do some image-magic to have it appear in your comment.

  9. tigtog
    tigtog September 10, 2012 at 9:39 am | *

    aaaand it’s Hammertime on the Lego Death Star!

  10. Aqua of the Questioners
    Aqua of the Questioners September 10, 2012 at 1:44 pm |

    This is whimsical, provided you don’t mind some gangster in your whimsical:
    http://jetpack-monkey.dreamwidth.org/451780.html
    (You need to type in the password provided to see the video.)

  11. tigtog
    tigtog September 11, 2012 at 1:24 pm | *

    The very model of an amateur grammarian (With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan) from The Stroppy Editor, who Minds other people’s language. A lot.

    via mimbles on FB

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