baby animals

It's National Hug A Bear Day! And we here at Cheezburger are celebrating! Now, it's important to remember that you should actually go out and hug a bear. That is a bit dangerous at the end of the day, no matter how cute and cuddly bears may appear. 

No, National Hug A Bear Day is actually a day that refers to teddy bears and is meant to celebrate hugging! Yeah, you heard right. On this day, you aren't supposed to go out and hug actual bears. The way to celebrate National Hug A Bear day is by hugging your teddy bear, or by hugging your friend's teddy bear, or giving a big ol' 'bear hug' to one of your friends or family members. 

That doesn't mean that actual bears shouldn't be celebrated, of course, since bears are unbearably awesome. So, since we can't come give y'all bear hugs right now, as a compromise, we've decided to give you an adorable collection of some of the most teddy bear-like looking bear cubs instead.

They may be slow, but oh my god, they are so quick to get right into our hearts and stay there. Sloths are just such unique and interesting creatures. Being so slow in nature has to have its downsides, but sloths persevere, surviving, not going anywhere (mostly literally), making tiny little baby sloths to continue their slow-building legacy.

They're the best creatures to remind you that it's okay to sometimes take a break and rest, that even if you're not the fastest, that doesn't mean that you're not strong (and totally adorable. We love sloths. Who doesn't love sloths. And today, were appreciating their tiny legacies together. 

This is so incredibly sweet!

Mr. Pelican was first found on Chambers Island in Maroochydore, Queensland, constantly getting in trouble. He would get entangled in fishing lines, and would constantly need help. As Twinnies Pelican and Seabird Rescue, in Australia, continued to come to aid him, one day that came to find him missing a wing due to a severe injury, and was taken into Twinnies Sanctuary. 

Since then, Mr. Pelican has found a partner and has been trying to have a baby. For six years, Mr. Pelican and his partner have been trying, they would dutifully watch and sit on their eggs, share the incubation period together, and no egg would ever hatch. 

Until now. This past September, when a caretaker at Twinnies placed a fellow pelican's egg within Mr. Pelican's nest, and it hatched. 

Twinnies stated on their Facebook page, "Mr. Percival has never given up trying to have a baby pelican chick. We felt so sorry for him as it's so sad when he's seen the others around him seeing baby pelicans. So we did this amazing thing for him as we wanted to make him really happy this time." 

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Monday is officially over and that alone is reason to celebrate! We like to do our celebrating by admiring the beauty and absolute cuteness of various animals. There are so many animals out there, and there's just endless cuteness to be admired. We truly do our best to provide you the cutest dose of animals imaginable, and we do so by collecting the most upvoted pics and vids of Reddit's most popular sub -- r/aww.

Each week, we bring you the cutest pics and vids we can find to remind you that there is good in this world, and that comes in the form of animals. Also, it's the doctor's orders that you take in your weekly dose of cute - if you're a smudge behind on your cuteness fill, catch up by taking in last week's wholesome dose! 

We often share images of squirrels but this time we decided to dedicate some love to their adorable look-a-likes -- chipmunks! Sure, chipmunks don't have that bushy tail we're all in love with, but they're so stinkin' cute, and small, we love them just as much! 

Chipmunks are smaller than squirrels and they come with some distinct stripes. Both chipmunks and squirrels are part of the same family of rodents but they actually have so little in common with one another than they never really are seen together. 

Chipmunks can fit into the palm of our hands and these following images of that will melt anyone's heart... no matter how cold and frozen it may be. 

Last week, we made it one hundred weeks of cuteness! And as a reward, we decided to keep the party going!

With our daily dose of cute, you'll be able to gain the strength and sanity we all need to endure the rest of this year. So, take it all in and bask in it's beautiful, warm glow. Animal cuteness is scientifically proven to cure all of life's ailments. 

After scouring the internet for the cutest of the cute, we discovered this hearty and wholesome gallery below and deemed it fit enough to be presented to you. Enjoy!