This is a video from the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston where recent mother Kiki the gorilla reacts to recent human mother Emmelina and her newborn. Emmelina has her five-week old son Canyon with her, and Kiki her newborn son Pablo. Kiki repeatedly tries to caress the human baby’s head

Note: Chart cut for brevity, keep going for the whole thing. This is a visualization created by the chart and graph makers at Visme of the most common birth months for countries around the world, grouped into latitudinal geographic zones. I learned a lot by looking at it. Mostly, that

WARNING: SPIDERS. This is a video of Australian woman Claudia welcoming a bunch of baby huntsman spiders into the world with a “they’re so cute!” and not a gas can and lighter like many would be tempted to do. Apparently Claudia discovered the babies upon walking into her daughter’s room

Because being a chubby, indoor cat is a hard life to live, this is a video of a chunky feline falling asleep belly-up in an automatic baby rocker. So, just in case you were wondering what living the dream looks like — this is it. Also, I’ll be the first

Children: it’s fun to pretend they’re just tiny old people which is really what they are so it isn’t even that hard to pretend. You could have the worst imagination and it would still be easy. Enter the False Teether from Fred and available from Firebox. It’s a teething ring

This is a video of precious baby otter Joey eating ice at the Marine Mammal Rescue Centre in Vancouver, Canada. How cute is he?! Also, somebody should probably clean and sterilize the ice maker of whatever fast food restaurant this was filmed at, all for the sake of a TikTok

This is the 5-piece hand-knit Yoda costume for infants made by Fenbo and available on Amazon ($23 +$5 shipping). That seems like a good deal for something that was hand-knit, I hope they’re compensating the knitters fairly. Of course this isn’t an officially licensed product, so maybe they’re just passing

This is a short video of a baby girl who appears to find herself unable to differentiate her mother (left, in the burgundy) from her mother’s twin sister. Or, who knows, maybe she’s just focusing on pooping. Man, not being able to tell your mom from someone else — that