From September 6, 2016
Puppies, kittens, ducklings, baby goats–somewhere in this video you’re sure to find someone you’d want to pick up and kiss.
You will also learn how to annoy a squirrel. If you’re trying to grow vegetables, I think you’ll agree that turnabout is fair play.
I kept waiting for some of these rhinos to spin cocoons, but I guess it’s the wrong time of year. But I hope you can see from this video that they’re not stupid ferocious beasts that mindlessly attack anything that moves. For that kind of critter you have to go to Washington or Hollywood.
Kittens and puppies, ducklings and chicks, lambs and baby goats… Gee, what would you get if you put them all together, all singing, crying, or speaking at once? Besides a splitting headache, I mean.
But from another point of view, it might be a kind of symphony orchestra–all those different instruments blending into a single lovely sound.
Quite an assortment here! Even a baby gecko. I am sorry to report that every baby gecko I have ever met trotted out a threat display and wanted to bite me. I wonder if they grow out of that. I mean, what do we do to annoy a gecko?
They’d better be nice! I had a devil of a time trying to load this video. The computer thought I wanted ghost stories. Well, yeah, I like ghost stories–but this is time for critter video.
Anyway, enjoy the baby animals while I try to figure out what happened.
Here in suburban New Jersey we don’t get much interaction with beavers. So I had never seen a baby beaver before.
It seems they come into this world rarin’ to go; and, like box turtles (who should certainly know better!), once they get moving, they won’t stop or turn aside for anything. I can’t explain why box turtles do that. Maybe a beaver is born with the expectation of landing in the water.
Such a lively little fellow! And he does seem to enjoy the company of humans. Who knew?
True, we don’t see Momma Rhino frolicking and cutting capers. Maybe that’s just too hard to do when you weigh a ton or more. Then again, an adult rhino can run fast–30 miles per hour, and change. If one of them plowed into you at full speed… where would you come down?
Somebody just told me “Nature” is “Erutan” spelled backwards. Get a life.
It’s hard to believe this little fella will grow up to be a top predator–scourge of the caribou, bane of the bison. Wolves will even eat people, if there’s nothing better going.
But all God’s stuff is created for a reason: and we just can’t help loving baby animals. He did that for a reason, too.
All right, it’s not as exciting as Ben-Hur’s chariot race–but gee, baby donkeys are awful cute, aren’t they? Especially the one in the hammock. And I can never see videos of donkeys without thinking of this:
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass (Zechariah 9:9)
Even so came Christ into Jerusalem.
All you people out there who want to hug baby sloths… I guess you’ll have to become zoologists and get a grant to study in Costa Rica. But here at least you can see the babies are small enough to let chairs and rocking chairs serve them as trees. “Hey, wait a minute! We have chairs! If we can only get a baby sloth or two…”