There's nothing anyone loves more than fluffy baby animals - right? Right. We're all obsessed with filling our Instagram timelines with puppies, googling pictures of baby goats, and these mini fuzzy flamingos. So when a new one comes on our radar, it has to be shared.
Say hello to this tiny ball of fluff, aptly named - you might have guessed it - 'Fluffy':
Fluffy is a tawny frogmouth owl chick, and he was hatched at Munich, Germany's Vogelpark Ochling Bird Park last month, though the species is native to Australia. The internet is comparing him to a furby, but there is a definite resemblance to the goblins in David Bowie's 1986 film Labyrinth... though Fluffy is definitely cuter.
Not only is he adorable, he's one of a kind: a spokesman at the Bird Park says he's the first baby of his species to be born there. The Park acquired a pair of females in 2016 to add to the two males they already had, sparks flew, and the rest is history. Tawny frogmouth owls mate for life, so let's hope Fluffy's keepers can find him an equally cute girlfriend.
He lives on a diet of spiders, moths and beetles, doing us all a big favour who are deathly afraid of insects.
Fluffy already looks a bit grumpy now (which only adds to his cuteness IMO), but when he's older he'll look even sterner...
Wouldn't want to mess with him.
And that day is fast approaching: a Park-keeper reports that Fluffy is already growing some of his darker adult feathers. They also added how proud they are about their baby tawny frogmouth chick - aww - and how they'd like to breed more chicks in the future - yay!
Until he's all grown up and looking like he wants to eat us, we'll keep cooing over Fluffy in all his baby cuteness. Anyone fancy a trip to Germany this weekend?
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Images courtesy of Vogelpark Oclhing Brid Park, Munich*
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.