As of yesterday, everything in the Paris metropolitan area seemed so simple, or at least as simple as everything can seem in the Paris metropolitan area when there is a tiger on the loose. But as of today, this sightseeing road tiger has been revealed to be not a tiger but rather a dark and pressing mystery.

You know what they say about too much personality in one room? Not since "We Are the World 2010" have this many awesomely random people been in one spot, covering the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows" in a psychedelic-baroque theater. But for whom does one Harry Styles remove his bandanna? No one, not even for a 482-pound…

Bad news for New York dudes on dating sites and apps who like to spice things up and set themselves apart by posing with big and probably sedated cats: you may have to legally cut that shit out. I mean, you're more than welcome to at any time, but soon it may be law.

A zoo in Austria named a baby tiger in a litter of five white tigers born last month "Obama."

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…

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.