While learning all about the Animal Kingdom (yeah, my life is pretty much a first grade science class) yesterday, I happened to stumble across what just might be the cutest animal in the entire universe: the pine marten. Behold, and I dare you not to squeal like a little girl:
By the way, this album is taken from Flickr, which I am told is Creative Commons material. However, I will give the photographer credit anyway: Adam Lyon, and here is his Flickr page.
Anyway, at first, when I saw the word marten on the Animal Kingdom chart (under the Mustelidae aka Weasel family) I was like "what the heck is a marten?" but then realized I have heard of it before.... in The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman. It was the animal form that Lyra's daemon chose. And now I know why. Clearly Mr. Pullman was looking for the cutest animal in the world, and he couldn't pick say, a puppy or a kitty, because those animals had already been used in the previous books... so I'm sure he just google imaged a little bit until he found Mr. Cute. Enjoy!
On a kinda animal related note, I would like to share with you all an inspirational passage from the LOLCAT Bible. Srsly. Someone on this planet decided that it would be a good idea to translate the entire Holy Bible into Lolspeak, the language of LOLCATS. Once again, srsly. So without further ado, here is Exodus 2:1-4....
1 Sum guye wented to Levi's place an marryed hiz doter.2 An the doter hd a bayby who wuz a boi so she hided himm.3 So she decided to do wot Pharo saied an put hm in teh rievr but she maded a bukkit fur him sos he woudt drounz. An she sed pharo is liek rly laem 4 tellz us puts babyz in teh river An not sais u no can has bukkitz lol st00pid pharo.4 An his big sis miriam wuz tehr 2 An she hided An wotched him flote awai an she like kthxbai. An teh crocodielz An teh lolrusz did not eated him. wich wuz good cuz if dey did tehr wudnt b no mor storyz An htis wud b rly short bibul.
Links:
I Can Has a Cheezburger? (The LOLCAT page).
Lolcat Bible
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