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Why are puppies so cute but say, eaglets, so ugly? Both are just smaller versions of the fully-grown animal, but yet one manages to look appealing while the other not so much. Of course this doesn't happen only with dogs and eagles, it was just an example, but you could say the same to kittens and owlets, or foals and rat pups. And don't say that's because they're birds and we are mammals, because ducklings are cute and very young joeys are ugly, for example.
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Because birds that don't start out fully functional focus on getting to adult size as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Also this might come as a surprise, but baby animals aren't catered to be cute to humans.
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God made them that way
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formula for baby cute is all adult functions in smaller package. Blind kittens are ugly. Fuzzy stage rat pups are cute. Human newborns are the ugliest of them all, but freely running and talking toddlers are cute. Running around trying to fly (visually fully functioning - with all the flight feathers) fledglings are cute.
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OP has shit taste
baby birds are QTs too
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>>2308555
The reality is that cuteness is merely a perspective based on the psychology of the viewer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0zConOPZ8Y
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>>2308609
What...what is that. They took an adult owl face and photoshopped it onto a pile of dust?
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>>2308607
>Human newborns are the ugliest of them all, but freely running and talking toddlers are cute
I actually think the exact opposite, a 2 month old baby is pretty cute to me, but a screaming snotty toddler is absolutely disgusting
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Puppies rule
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>>2308609
The laundry came to life and its PISSED
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>this isn't cute
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>>2309736
aw, little monkey eater!
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>>2308609
Beware the wrath of the fluff elemental.
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>>2308555
There's a science to cuteness. Humans, and maybe mammals in general, are naturally attracted (?) to babies. We're SUPPOSED to find babies endearing and cute so we instinctually protect them. All baby mammals sortof follow the same "big eyes, big head, small" formula so most of them look "cute" to us.
I think eaglets are pretty cute. Seriously, you've never seen a turkey poult or a chicken chick before? They're fucking adorable.
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>>2309808
Babies dont look that cute though. Their proportions are fucked and their heads are shaped like a fucking orange. Plus their flabby arms and tiny hands are just spooky
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>>2308555
Niggerrr. Hatchlings of nidicolous birds are just fetuses. Newborn marsupials are fetuses outside the wombbb
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>>2308555
If horses were born as early and defenseless as rats or nidicolous birds you'll be grossed out.
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>>2309913
>not cute
Where
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>>2310407
Human babies
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>>2308609
is this real?
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dumping all my baby bird images
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>>2311554
yall ready to see a brazilian spectacled owl grow up because here we go
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>>2311555
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>>2311556
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>>2311558
aw hell naw that was upright in the previews if the rest of these are sideways imma be piss
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>>2311559
oh well im over it
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>>2311560
anyway the point is that baby birds have an "ugly" zone (if you feel that way about wrinkly beaked scrotums) and a cute zone
precocial birds kinda skip that
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>>2311561
doves are stringy and bug eyed but i still like them
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>>2311563
great horned owl
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Baby birds of prey are great, they look adorable and then when you see their feet you wonder what steak knives are doing there.
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