Why are animals babies

[ouch!]

SO much cuter than the human variety? Surely evolution should have sorted this one out?

[IndieSinger]

That's like saying, "Why don't lemmings evolve to have wings?"

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Erm... Why don't lemmings evolve to have wings?

[tartanwiz]

That's not fair. I was cute as a baby. Cuter even than a baby great white shark. In fact I'm still cute.

[DuzyEverwork]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all babies are cute to their mothers, although to this day Mother Nature is working hand-in-hand (and getting a back-hander, no doubt) with the pet food industry so that she makes the babies cute, we fall in love with them, and they rip us off left, right and centre....it's what makes the world go round! :o) Trudi

[IndieSinger]

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[wildwood]

Apparantly it has to do with the relatively large head and short legs of young animals which evokes some kind of 'oh' factor in humans. If you think about it kittens and puppies are really most appealing when they at that age when they are starting to crawl/walk.
This is also the case with human babies but because we mostly see them at a much earlier age they are only attractive to the parents - and ofcourse grandparents. Because we are not covered with hair, human babies look like a gaint wrinkled sausage as if they have been made by a drunken butcher.(excepting TW)

[darth vader]

why don't cows have fourteen foot tails so they can flick the flies off their nose? now THAT'S something evolution should sort out.

[Moonhead]

Nothing what ever to do with babies at all - just wanted to say darth vader's answers never fail to make me smile. :o) <-- Smile.

[RATTER15]

If you have ever seen the end of a cows tail you wouldnt have asked that question DARTH I wouldnt want it anywhere near my nose!!