Zabu is just like you when you were five years old and after being trapped inside for a long, shitty winter, your mom finally gave in to your demands and agreed that yes, it was at long last warm enough to go out and enjoy the pool.
She's all, "Oh, a cub. Let me clean your shit up and lets get on with our lives as a twosome."
This video from Big Cat Rescue reminds many of us that we live with pint-sized kings and queens of the jungle. Damn, cats are awesome.
This footage of a tiger family — shot by cameras attached to elephants — is pretty gorgeous. Love the baby tiger screech at 1:08! Below, feel free to post more tiger videos, cat gifs, your own pet pix, or whatever you've got that makes you squee. Happy Friday!
When this Siberian Tiger cub's mother was killed by poachers in November, he and his two siblings were rescued by scientists and kept safe until their release in the Russian Far East. The tale of the rescue is fascinating; the scientists have to keep the cubs wary of humans so they can reacclimate to the wild — and so…
Watching a bone-white German shepherd suckle three Siberian tiger cubs might feel a little bit like getting a glimpse of some apocalyptic message that Mother Nature is trying to send us — "Earth is decaying like a box of strawberries you bought at a farmer's market and forgot about in the back of the fridge — stop…
Errrmaahhhgaaaawd. This baby tiger bouncing around on a sofa might be the cutest thing ever. Wait. It's playing with a chihuahua? That's the cutest thing ever. For now anyway — I have a feeling this interspecies friendship could end very very badly. CHOMP CHOMP.
Florida, the land of completely fucked up happenings and, just to even things out, Key Lime Pie, is now not only home to the you-only-live-once-so-stop-being-such-a-coward gator pool party, but also, thanks to some enterprising animal handlers at Dade City's private zoo Wild Things, the tiger cub pool, featuring a real …
It's International Tiger Day, which means, of course, that we can spend the rest of the evening looking at pictures of tiger cubs grudgingly letting their ear fur be groomed.
These two male tiger cubs were born late last month at the Columbus Zoo! Photo by G. Jones, Columbus Zoo and Aquarium — more at Zooborns. Addiction-al cute below.
They're all cuddly and rolly-around-y and there is even A YAWN at 1:17. Can't stop, won't stop, don't ever stop. I want one.
On a day when the rest of America is drunk on puppy, we should remind ourselves that the wide world is full of genuine cuddle monsters and that scientists have finally answered the baffling mystery that you probably think about on an average of 4.6 times a day without even realizing it: Do big cats purr? Maybe?…
Does this bread look like a tiger? No, it looks like a giraffe! And Lily Robinson, age 3, wasn't going to stand for it anymore. With the help of her mom, she wrote a letter British chain Sainsbury's, which sold the bread. This touched off a mass Facebook campaign, and this week, the store caved: "In response to…
Generally when you encounter four tigers, you're the one getting mauled, but lucky workers at Tierpark Berlin got a chance to cuddle these seven-week-old cubs at their public debut. Big cats are born at the zoo regularly, but quadruplets are rare. The three girls, Thaya, Salween and Mandalay, and a boy named Lampun are …
Police in Hampshire, England sent helicopters and officers armed with tranquilizers to dispatch a white tiger spotted on a Hedge End golf course. The result: after what officers described as "a brief stalk through the Hedge End savannah ... it became obvious that the tiger was a stuffed, life-sized toy." They also…
The San Diego zoo is home to two brand new male tiger cubs, both of whom just opened their eyes this week. Aren't they adorable little bundles of murder?
Tiger Cubs Open Their Eyes for the First Time [Zooborns]
[Beijing, February 13: A tiger rests in a snow covered enclosure at the Beijing Zoo. Image via AP.]
Today in media stunts: Naomi Campbell interviews Vladimir Putin for British GQ. Her opening gambit? "You're in pretty good physical shape. How do you manage to keep yourself so fit?" It gets worse (better?) from there.
The science of attractiveness can be obnoxious when misrepresented, but it's also fascinating. A new book contains some surprising information about sexy tigers, the cosmetic power of veggies — and how to talk about beauty without being an asshole.
