Mud daubers or damselflies in a ‘Ghibli characters come to life’ way. Those things look like they flew straight out of a Ghibli flick.
The aye-aye is weird-looking enough as an adult, but it looks like a Jim Henson creation as a baby.
I read all the comments to see if the aye-aye was mentioned.
I mean, there are a bunch of cute Henson creatures, but I neither disagree with you nor think this thing is in any way cute as a baby
Pretty much every bird
Except the birds with precocious chicks. They’re pretty much all cute. For example, the baby killdeer is adorable. baby chicks and baby ducks are pretty cute too.
Damn, good point. Ducklings are adorable. And look at this little guy!
As I think about it, that’s a pretty good rule for most vertebrates(I exclude fish in this). If the newborn can walk around within an hour of being born or hatched, it’s a lot more likely to be incredibly cute. Deer, giraffe, elephant, horses are all pretty cute. Kangaroos(all marsupials, actually), rats, mice are all pretty ugly. You could start a flame war debating the relative cuteness of newborn humans, canines and felines in comparison. Though they get pretty cute fairly fast.
Pretty much all birds.
Except chicken
Coots are really cute as babies and kind of bleh as adults.
And ducks. I’ve had a couple generations of ducks and they’re so adorable as ducklings, including the newborns. The adults are pretty, though; got one whose black feathers look plain from a distance but are an iridescent sort of deep purple and green closer up.
baby birds look like shit. featherless, wrinkly, pink sickly looking rats with beaks. Sheet rats look better
Baby birds all cuter after they like 2 weeks old. A ton of newborn things look pretty ugly.
Butterflies
beat me to it.
Birds and humans.
Also a lot of rodents, like mice, rats, etc.
Definitely humans. I mean, look at newborn babies. They are little wrinkly screaming poopgoblins.
You could describe the elderly in the same way.
We end the way we began.
Touché. I guess you’re right.
But right in the middle, some of us are… well not terrible. Not necessarily great, but not terrible.
At that point it’s more about our actions.
🎵 'TIS A CIRCLE OF LIFE~ 🎵
Pandas and kangaroos come to mind immediately. Probably every marsupial would make the cut here too.
Barn Owls all day long
they look like baby skeksis
https://www.darkcrystal.com/mythology/characters/urskeks/skeksis/
Most birds, really.
Stellars Jays spring to mind. One of the most beautifully punk-rock looking birds and worryingly intellegent, but my god their young look like like nothing more than cancerous scrotums.
Ladybug. The baby is a demon spawn made to eliminate aphid. It’s good but not cute, it’s metal.
Similarly, antlions. The adult just looks like a weird dragonfly while the larva is an alien-looking burrowing ambush predator with spikes and giant mandibles.
yikes!
weasels. pictured, long tailed weasel mom carrying newborns https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/73859688
Yeah. Came here to say most rodents would fit this bill though event the adults aren’t for all tastes. Mice, etc. are much cuter when they have fur.
Newborn cats aren’t all that great looking.
also rabbits and squirrels, but it seems that capybaras and beavers are born with fur
Fuckin humans. Little alien potatoe mutant lookin infants geoss me the fuck out.
Platipus - they start as boring eggs
Fun fact: baby platipi are called puggles
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Agree, Im definitely cuter now than I was as a kid.
Baby: wrinkled thing that screams and poops all the time.
Adult: Awh, it thinks it knows shit, and can do whatever it puts it’s mind to. Very cute.
A bit of humor here, but you get the idea.
