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What could be better than little yellow chicks being born from multi-colored Easter eggs? Why multi-colored Easter chicks being born from regular eggs, of course.
The picture on the left is not photoshopped. That’s really what the chicks look like. Their eggs were injected with dye, leaving the little ones colored upon hatching. Once their new feathers grow out, they’ll be normal-colored again, but for now, they’re mighty festive.
If you want your little one to look as adorable as this little angel, you’re in luck, Sarah James of Instructables has instructions on how to make your own baby Care Bear costume from a dead Care Bear carcass.
The viral versions of the infamous Evian; Skating Babies ad campaign have reached new heights in Advertising history on November entering the Guinness Book of World Records as the most viewed viral ads of all time. Their antics have received 45, 166,109 hits since posting making them the most efficient viral campaign ever.
These little critters, known as puggles when they are babies, are notoriously hard to breed, but the Perth Zoo in Australia has managed to successfully breed them three years in a row. The zoo thinks it’s now ready to start working on a reproduction program for their critically endangered cousins, the long-beaked echidna of New Guinea.
Link Images Via Lincoln Baker
A mother squirrel was caught on camera protecting her baby from the jaws of a large black dog. The first image shows the dog about to start pouncing and playing with the baby as the mother looks on, but then the rest of the series depicts the mother diving down and attacking the dog so the youngster has a chance to escape. It looks like all three parties involved came out mostly unscathed, but the dog might have some scratches where the squirrel bit him on the neck and face.
Link Image Via Daily Mail
39-year-old Sara Foss of Derby, England is already the mother of 13 children and is expecting her 14th. She says as soon as the new baby is born in April, she’ll try to get pregnant again. Foss vows to keep on having babies until she has twins or triplets!
Her mammoth brood now comprises Patrick, 23, Stephen, 13, Malachai, 12, Peppermint, 11, Echo, 10, Eli, nine, Rogue, eight, Frodo, seven, Morpheus, five, Artemis, four, Blackbird, three, Baudelaire, two, and nine-month-old Voorhees.
No word yet on what number 14 will be named. Link -via I Am Bored
(image credit: Flickr user Mick 0)
This 11-month old baby isn’t even their youngest customer! The ad copy also says:
By the way, Mom, when it comes to toddlers- if they liked to be coaxed to drink their milk, try this: add 7-Up to the milk in equal parts, pouring the 7-Up gently into the milk. It’s a wholesome combination- and it works!
Click the picture at Kitchen Retro to see the full-size version of this and other vintage ads. Link -via J-Walk Blog
If you’ve have a formal event coming up and need some fancy duds for your high-class baby, consider this fine baby tuxedo available at Corduroy’s Closet on Etsy.
Link Via Craftzine Image Via Corduroy’s Closet
The three graphs above show that women who give birth in winter months (blue dots) tend to be younger, less educated, and less likely to be married compared to mothers who give birth during the summer months (green dots). The data displayed some trends for the time period shown (1996-2001), but the summer/winter discrepancy remained surprisingly constant.
These data, reported by economists Kasey Buckles and Daniel Hungerman at the University of Notre Dame, may offer an explanation for the observation that, compared to “summer babies,” those born in winter months tend to do more poorly in school, are less healthy, earn less, and have shorter lifespans.
The mechanism behind these relationships, alternative explanations, and a long comment thread are available at the primary link.
Etsy user Tiny Tangerine, aka Kelly Burghardt, knits these adorable baby hats. My favorite is the cow hat. Craftzine has a great interview with her or you can just click on the link and look at her great gallery of work.
In contrast to horses, which can walk within an hour of being born, or newborn baboons, which can cling to their mothers as they swing through the trees, human babies are unusually helpless and vulnerable. Anthropologist John Bock explains why:
One of the first traits that differentiated humans from our ancestors was upright gait. There are several hypotheses about the emergence of this trait, but it seems to have offered a way to move more efficiently in open environments such as the savanna. Although our earliest human ancestors were very apelike in terms of their brains, their upright gait had changed their pelvis to look much like our modern one. This reshaped pelvis came with a narrower birth canal, making childbirth more difficult.
Meanwhile the new roaming grounds afforded advantages in acquiring resources and negotiating social relationships to those with flexible, problem-solving behavior. Over time, natural selection increased brain size in these early humans. But at some point, the selection for bigger and bigger brains collided head-on, so to speak, with the narrow pelvis. If babies’ heads got any bigger, they would get stuck in the birth canal and kill both mother and child. Although natural selection worked to maximize what could be done—for instance, babies’ heads compress as they twist their way around the bones in the pelvis—there simply is not enough room for a big, mature brain to pass through.
Therefore, Bock explains, human baby brains continue to develop substantially after birth and it takes longer for them to learn how to walk.
Image by flickr user BadrNaseem used under creative commons license
Craftster user UpKnitCreek created this Legend of Zelda-inspired Link outfit for a friend’s baby shower. For authenticity, she (he?) even put leather soles on the booties and wrapped the whole thing in a wooden chest that looks like one from the game. More pictures at the link.
Link via Crunch Gear
If you’ve ever lost your wallet, you know what a pain it is to cancel all your cards and get them reordered. You know how annoying it is to go to the DMV and get a new driver’s license. You probably also know how much of a bummer it can be to lose important phone numbers, photos, tickets stubs and cash you had in there too.
Fortunately, scientists have come up with a great way to increase your likelihood of getting your wallet back -put cute kids pictures in it. Adorable images of children trigger a person’s empathy and their “compassionate instinct towards vulnerable infants that people have evolved to ensure the survival of future generations.”
Wallets with a cute baby pic were sent back 90% of the time, whereas those with no images only had a one out of seven chance of reuniting with their previous owner.
Link Via Consumerist
How are babies made? Is it through a very complicated process, or through the baby-carrying stork? This video by Cassidy Curtis and Racquel Coelho just might be the answer.
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They are so cute! Take a look at animal babies born in the ZSL (Zoological Society of London) zoos in London and Whipsnade. Guaranteed to make you smile!
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Keep watching to where he starts licking his little tiny hands. It’s fantasmical.
Link Via GiggleSugar
This little critter is just too cute. Just look at her sitting there with her teddy bear mama. The best part is how exciting her birth is -she’s one of only 17 of her species in captivity. More pics are available when you click the link.
This cute kid pygmy goat is just one of many precious little pygmy animals in the collection of tiny animal videos. Also portrayed are little rabbits, seahorses, hippos and possums.
Link Via BoingBoing
I’ve seen a lot of cute baby critters in my time, but this is the first time I’ve seen a newborn aardvark. He’s so weird looking, he looks like Alf‘s hairless baby. If you live near the Detroit zoo, check out this “hideously cute” babe.
Cute Things Falling Asleep is yet another adorable animal blog, this one exclusively posts videos of its namesake. I’ve gotta say, this one is even a bit too cute for me, but I couldn’t resist this adorable sloth video.
Xylocopa addresses a serious deficiency in mad science education today:
Like many of you, we are concerned about the state of science education in the public school system, especially in the lower grades. Specifically, we have noticed that there is absolutely no training in the K-6 grades that prepares students to become mad scientists. In this competitive 21st-century world, the need for mad scientists will only increase, but the lack of basic education in primary school leaves us concerned that there will be no future students capable of leading in this illustrious field.
Fortunately, we have a solution – a first step, if you will, along the path to mad science proficiency. We are pleased to announce the release of our Young Mad Scientist’s First Alphabet Blocks. These lovely blocks contain many carefully engraved illustrations of the equipment, training, and activities that a budding mad scientist will require, combined with a clever alphabetic introduction to the concept depicted.
T is for Tentacles, O is for Organs, H is for Henchmen.
Link via Popped Culture
Zooborns is a fantastic new niche blog, one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. It’s all about little baby critters born at the zoos across the world. If you love animals as much as I do, it’s a must see!
Link Via MentalFloss
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