Cuteness is a delicate and attractive kind of beauty commonly associated with youth, innocence, and helplessness. Human infants and many baby animals define "cuteness" for most people, and the standard characteristics of infancy are typically used to judge the cuteness of other phenomena (for example, plush toys or adult animals.) Cuteness - Characteristics. Cuteness is usually characterized by some combination of infant-like physical traits, especially small size, a large head, large eyes, a ...

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Konrad Lorenz argued in 1950 that infantile features triggered nurturing responses in adults. Lorenz argued that this was an evolutionary adaptation, which helped ensure that adults cared for their children, ultimately securing the survival of the race. As evidence for this theory, Lorenz noted that humans react more positively to animals that resemble infants—with big eyes, big heads, shortened noses, etc.—than to animals that do not. Lorenz noted that in German the names of infant-like animals often end in the diminutive suffix -chen (for example, Rotkehlchen, or robin). Animals without these features do n ...

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The term kitten (Old English genitive of Cat) most commonly refers to a pre-adolescent cat. It may also refer to a young rabbit, rat, hedgehog or squirrel. This article discusses kittens of the domestic cat. Kitten - Birth and development. A litter of kittens usually consists of three to six kittens. Born after approximately 63 days of gestation, kittens emerge in an amnion which is bitten off and eaten by the mother cat. For the first several weeks, kittens are unable to urinate or defecate without ...

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Beauty is the phenomenon of the experience of pleasure, through the perception of balance and proportion of stimulus. It involves the cognition of a balanced form and structure that elicits attraction and appeal towards a person, animal, inanimate object, scene, music, or idea. The opposite of beauty is ugliness, the experience of displeasure at some stimulus. Beauty - Beauty and aesthetics. Understanding the nature and meaning of beauty is one of the key themes in the philosophical discipline known as aest ...

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X3 may stand for: a way to write XXX an emoticon used on the internet, the X resembles eyes being squenched together, and the 3 resembles a person's lips in a cute smile. This indicate X, closed eyes, and a cute mouth, 3. Like :3 or XD. is the IATA code for Hapag-Lloyd Express X3 (Chicano rap) a Chicano rap group X³: Reunion, a space simulation computer game BMW X3, the BMW Sp

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Pup refers to the young of several species of animals, and from there has been used to name various products to imply the youth, vigor, and perhaps cuteness of the product. For more information, see: Dog, whose young are called pups or puppies Other members of the canine family, whose young are called pups The marine mammal seals, whose young are called pups Sharks, whos ...

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Australus is the winning entry in an informal competition designed to invent a new word to use as a culinary description for the meat of a kangaroo. Food Companion International magazine, with support from the Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia, ran a competition hoping to find a name that wouldn't put diners off when they saw it on a menu. The kangaroo meat industry suffers from the perception of some consumers that kangaroos are cute and/or not suitable for human consumption. The idea of adopting a culinary name was taken from the success of calling deer meat venison, to avoid connota ...

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Ugly Naked Guy was a character in the American television show, Friends. The character was shown twice on screen: once while he was suspected of being dead, and once with his back facing the camera. His actual name is not known. He was a strange hermit who received his nickname for being fat and ugly, as well as being naked while at home. He wasn't always Ugly Naked Guy, though. In an episode that was supposed to take place before the series started, Phoebe referred to him as Cute Naked Guy, but commented ...

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13 Going On 30 (a.k.a. Suddenly 30 in Australia) is a 2004 movie starring Jennifer Garner about a young girl named Jenna Rink who, on her 13th birthday in 1987- wishes to be a 30-year-old adult, because she is ignored by the cool girls in school and mostly unnoticed by the cute boy she likes. When she awakes the next morning, her wish has come true: she finds herself seventeen years in the future, gorgeous and successful with a great job, a fabulous Fifth Avenue apartment, and a handsome boyfriend, but no idea how ...

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Feline kittens are stereotypically (and typically) very cute to human perception. Entire websites such as Kittenwar.com are devoted to the cute look and behavior of kittens. There are good evolutionary reasons to expect humans to find juvenile humans, and perhaps juvenile animals in general, cute. This is related to the novelty of the exaggerated size of the head that is common to juvenile mammals and many other species. Why humans find cats in general cuter than most other species remains a topic of speculation. It may be the retenti ...

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As of October 2005, 12 Lenore comic books were released. Besides these, there have been three separated story books and two collections. Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl - Books. Something at the Window Is Scratching (1998) The Monsters in my Tummy (1999) The Cat with a Really Big Head: And One Other Story that Isn't as Good (2002) Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl - Compilations. These are compilations from the comic books. They are: Lenore: Noogies (from #1 to #4) (19 ...

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The comic primarily tells of the adventures of the title character, Lenore, and her variety of friends. The primary focus of the comic is ironic black humor, with many of the stories having amusing twist endings. Common themes are the reinvention of children's songs, games, and nursery rhymes to something more macabre, and subverting all sorts of pop culture icons and cultural figures in to topics of dark comedy. In one story, for instance, Lenore accidentally kills the Easter Bunny. While Lenore's actions often result in the death or injury ...

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A litter of kittens usually consists of three to six kittens. Born after approximately 63 days of gestation, kittens emerge in an amnion which is bitten off and eaten by the mother cat. For the first several weeks, kittens are unable to urinate or defecate without being stimulated by their mother. They are also unable to regulate their body temperature for the first three weeks, so kittens born in temperatures less than 27°C / 80°F are at risk for death from exp ...

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Kittens require a diet higher in protein and fat than adult cats do. From weaning until about one year of age they should be fed a diet specifically formulated for kittens. Most veterinarians recommend that kittens be vaccinated against common illnesses beginning at 2-3 months of age and spayed or neutered at 5-8 months of age. Some veterinarians will spay or neuter kittens who are as young as 6-8 weeks. This practice is particularly common in animal shelters. Kittens ...

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When the kawaii 'craze' began to develop in Japan during the 1970s, a fad for writing notes and letters in rounded, childish characters began to catch on among teenaged Japanese girls. This style of penmanship was dubbed Anomalous Female Teenage Handwriting by Yamane Kazuma, during his two year study of handwriting in Japan (between 1984 and 1986). Previously Japanese writing had been written vertically using strokes that vary in thickness along their length. The new style was written laterally, preferably using a mechanical pe ...

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Neoteny also plays a role in evolution, as a means by which, over generations, a species can undergo a significant physical change. In such cases, a species' neotenous form becomes its 'normal' mature form, no longer dependant upon environmental triggers to inhibit maturity. The mechanism for this could be a mutation in, or interactions between, genes involved in maturation, inhibiting their function. Neoteny is not the only contributing factor affecting maturation in species that may have undergone neotenous changes over the course o ...

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The Netherland dwarf was first bred in the Netherlands, as its name implies, in the early 20th century. Medium-sized rabbits of various breeds were bred with wild European rabbits of unusually small size; after several generations the resulting animal was a very small domestic rabbit available in a wide variety of colors and patterns. Netherland dwarfs were first imported into the United Kingdom in the 1950s. In the 1960s and 1970s the United States ...

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The earliest theory of beauty can be found in the works of early Greek philosophers from the pre-Socratic period, such as Pythagoras. The extant writings attributed to Pythagoras reveal that the Pythagorean school, if not Pythagoras himself, saw a strong connection between mathematics and beauty. In particular, they noted that objects proportioned according to the golden ratio seemed more attractive. Some modern research seems to confirm this, in that people whose facial features are symmetric and proportioned according the golden ratio are consistently ranked as mo ...

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There is controversy over whether adult humans exhibit certain neotenous features, or juvenile characteristics, that are not evidenced in other great ape species. Because human sexual maturity is not delayed, many scientists doubt this premise. While neoteny is not necessarily a physical state experienced by humans, paedomorphic characteristics in women are widely acknowledged as desirable by men (see Sexual attraction). ...

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