Cute or not? Golden puffer fish

Photo credit: Dr. Scott M. Lieberman - AP

Cute or not? Two-Toed Sloth

Photo credit: Alexander Vasiljev / Nature's Best

Cute or not: Flamingo chick

Cute or not? Caiman lizard

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Cute or not? Baby lemur

Cute or not? Fennec Fox

Cute or not? Red panda babies

Photo: John Ulan/CP/AP

Cute or not? Baby colobus monkey

This baby's mother, the Oregon Zoo's adult Colobus, Molly, was chosen as the 2008 mother of the year!
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Cute or not? Praying mantis nymph

Cute or not? Stork chicks

Photo: Carsten Rehder/EPA

What is cute?

The Continuum of Cute invites the viewer to arrange 100 pictures of different animals, all found on the Internet, in order of cuteness. A giant inter-species beauty contest, the project investigates both our individual and collective sense of the "cute" at the same time as it indulges the anthropomorphic qualities that are often embedded in our sense of the word.
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Cute or not? Baby white-naped mangabey

This is Conchita. She is only the second white-naped mangabey to be born in the UK.

Conchita was born at the London Zoo in April, 2008.

Cute or not? Pet porcupine

Can't decide if this is cute or not? Here's another look.


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Cute or not? Komodo dragon hatchling

There are currently, at last count fewer than 4,000 Komodo dragons living in the wild, found living on three islands in Indonesia: Komodo, Flores and Rinca.

Scientists report of two cases where female Komodo dragons have produced offspring without male contact.

Photo: Frank Peters

Cute or not? Capuchin monkey

Cute or not? Baby slow loris

This is a pygmy slow loris. It is a rare species found in Vietnam, Laos, and parts of Cambodia. About 72,000 of the creatures live in the wild, and 183 are in captivity.

The nocturnal animals spend their days curled up in tree holes or clumps of dense vegetation. At night they come out to dine on fruit, insects, small mammals, and birds.

If threatened, the loris can pack a poisonous bite. They have little pads on the inside of their elbows that release a toxin. If they lick that, then bite in self-defense, they actually are able to deliver the toxin via their teeth. The toxin isn't believed to be harmful to humans.

Cute or not? Baby armadillo

(AP Photo/Tom Uhlman)

Cute or not? Baby crocodile

Can't decide? Here's another one . . .

Photo: Steve Winter (National Geographic)

Cute or not? Baby gorilla

Cute or not? Baby bunnies

"Bunnies - 1 week old" uploaded by Oh Joy!