How cute!

Lo, a March post, just under the wire! Via Kate Nepveu, here are the Six Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You.

The platypus is mother nature's way of saying, "I made this thing out of spare parts I found on the workshop floor, and it can still fucking cripple you."

You know, if you popped the bill off that platypus in the photo, he'd look a lot like Punxsutawney Phil. ("This is one time when television fails to capture the true excitement of a venomous monotreme predicting the weather.")

The late Steve Irwin, a man who used to tackle 12-foot crocodiles for fun and wave angry snakes filled with kill-you-before-your-next-heartbeat poison at a camera, considered a five-minute sequence where his camera team had to cross a river filled with hippos to be the single most dangerous moment ever filmed on his show.

The man who toyed with crocodiles, was scared shitless of hippos.

Having read how hippos mark their territory, I was already planning to give them a wide berth. On the other hand, I would be one of those idiots who wants to pet the dingo, because it looks so damn adorable.