As long as we have cute baby animals we have hope that everything will turn out ok.

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Featuring stunning films of cute baby animals Amazing Animal Babies will reveal the extraordinary stories these infants have to tell.

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Looking at pictures of cute baby animals is something of an obsession for those who spend long periods of time on the internet.

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In all three experiments, people who looked at pictures of cute baby animals outperformed people who looked at pictures of adult animals and people who looked at neutral objects.

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Waldi the Daschund set the standard for cute and cuddly animals as the first mascot at the 1972 Munich Games.

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But like comic book and animation aficionados who have seen their pet art forms taken over by cute, anthropomorphic animals, artificial intelligence geeks must be getting anxious.

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In the present paper, we call this affective feeling, typically elicited by babies, infants, and young animals, cute.

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Animals that are cute and huggable in infancy later grow into potential man-killers.

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