#BABY CUBS

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Cub reunited with mom after treatment

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[heartwarminganimals]

Syrup the tiger and her two cubs Earl and Gray at the Izu Animal Kingdom in Japan.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Two of my favorite shots of the cubs so far.

[happifying-things]

📷 from ParchedRepublic

[without-ado]

Mama polar bear is happy with her baby (x)

[too-hot-to-hoot]

Mother tigers who are not to be tested.

[reality-detective]

* * * News Interruption * * *

[snarkspawn]

naptime

[reasonsforhope]

"This decade has been one of the most positive for news about tiger conservation of any since conservation science began in earnest, and a highlight must be this mother tiger and her two cubs sighted in Western Thailand, the first such sighting in more than 10 years of close monitoring.

Tigers are stable or increasing across their entire remaining strongholds, including China, Russia, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and now Thailand—the only Southeast Asian country to see measurable increases in tiger population over the last 12 years.

There may now be as many as 190 tigers in the country, up from 46 logged in a population survey in 2007.

The sight of the mother and her cubs, in the Salak Phra Wildlife Sanctuary, part of the sprawling Western Forest Complex of Thungyai–Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries that stretch across 2,400 square miles, is a sign that Thailand’s conservation efforts are really working; not only are tigers breeding outside of core areas, but that must therefore mean there is enough large game, like sambar deer, to feed them.

“This is a big news for us,” said Rattapan Pattanarangsan, the conservation program manager at the Thai chapter of Panthera, a renowned wildcat conservation NGO. “…now we are the source, we can produce tigers from our place. That means our place is safe enough, and has enough prey for the mothers to eat and breed.”

Neighboring Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam haven’t been able to make meaningful progress in restoring their tigers, and if they ever needed a few individual animals, Thailand now has a stable, growing population that is adapted to similar forest conditions.

Pattanarangsan told The Guardian that creative efforts to stop poachers, such as by working together with ranchers to place early warning cameras on forest trails have worked significantly.

Reductions in commercial bamboo harvesting have also reduced human-tiger conflict, and the animals look poised to continue flourishing in the western rainforests of the country."

-via Good News Network, January 8, 2024

[kettls]

The baby thinks you smell very delicious but he will not bite you

[big-catsss]

(by Marcus Westberg)

[jadeseadragon]

Snow Leopard Cub

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

I can't edit the mesh out of this shot easily, but I just love the size difference here. These guys already look so much bigger than when I first saw them but they're still so tiny!!

[fridaybear]

Well, well, well, Friday is here to usher in the month of December. That means the weekend has arrived. Make yours amazing. Y'all got this. We believe in you. - - - - - -

"Polar Bear Mother and Cubs" by Alastair Rae is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

[crestapex]

See, it’s all fun and games chillin’ and fuckin’ around with König… Ya’ll are locked in together, you’ve been together for a while now. You have a place together, you’re engaged, soon to be wed. Life is good, you’re good, you’ve never been in a better place.

Until…

You’re pregnant with his baby.

You’re pregnant with the baby of a man who is described to be the size of a literal mountain.

You are literally bursting at the seams, your belly more often or not peaks around corner before you can. Everything you do is a struggle, you can hardly walk a few feet in your last trimester without getting so disgustingly out of breath. You look like you just swallowed a watermelon, two watermelons, actually. You have to be especially careful and mindful of your surroundings, last thing you need to do is bump right into the fridge because you misjudged the distance. By your last month, the final weeks of pregnancy, your skin is so stretched and everything is so sore that you often opt to walk around the house in nothing but an oversized t-shirt (his t-shirt, to be exact) and stretchy shorts that can hardly cover your hips. And the shorts, for the most part, are optional. Always when König is home, of course.

It feels like hell. You loved it at first, scared, but you were happy. Happy to have a baby with the man you loved so dearly. But now? Oh man, now you’re just so tired of being pregnant. You’re ready for the little sucker to come out, you and König both are. Hell, you don’t even know if a natural birth is even good idea, a c-section may as well be less painful. A little more risky, but at this rate? Whatever will get this baby out of you!

On that note, König tries his best to ease your pain and discomfort. He knows he can’t always be there, he’s away more often than not. But he does what he can when he is home. You won’t hardly have to lift a finger, not with you being this far along. He needs both his cub and his sweetheart happy and healthy, the less complications the better, so expect to not have to do much when he’s around.

That’s probably the only good part that comes out of being almost a full nine months pregnant. Aside from the baby itself. Sheesh.