If you are in need...

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...of a serious dose of cute, check out the mama jaguar playing with her cub at the Jordan Zoo.

Comments

[yhlee]

ZOMG SO CUTE.

I needed that--thanks!

[telophase]

I am a COMPLETE PUDDLE OF WIBBLE at that.

[yhlee]

*sob* I want a kitty-cat SO BADLY.

...although I'm not quite so far-gone as to want an actual jaguar. :-)

[ashenmote]

Awwww, thank you!

[telophase]

You're welcome! :D

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, cuteness. Mommy's tail is nearly as thick as a whole baby jaguar!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I love Mama's expression in the first picture: "This, too, shall pass..."

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

When he starts teething, I'm suspecting she won't be so tolerant of ear-gnawing!

[chomiji]

... well, that's 15 minutes I'll never get back. (I guess looking at fennec kits and ocelot kittens counts as a mental health break, right?)

I'm curious/worried that the mama jaguar has only one cub. I thought they usually had litters like most cat-creatures.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

There is almost always time for cute!

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Big cats, especially the Pantheridae, have smaller litters on average than domestic kitties. For jaguars, all the reputable-looking sources online are saying the average is 1 - 4 or 2 - 4 cubs, so a singleton's nothing to fret about. :)

[strigine.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I'd call that "playing with her cub". XD Maybe more like "tolerating being played with by her cub". But still frickin' adorable. Especially that one of her bathing him, where you can just hear the "Mooooooom!"

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

DUDE. SO CUTE.

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

omg.
*is ded*

[seawolf10.livejournal.com]

D'aww. Thanks.

[herchuckness.livejournal.com]

I did need that, thank you!