Cutest smiling tiger cub:

[tblue37]

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— (@marvellousnature01.bsky.social) 2025-03-06T16:18:58.594Z

[Deuxcents]

1. O..how I love this..I'm gonna keep it, if that's ok 😻

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Looks like an adorable teddy bear.

[hlthe2b]

3. Absolutely adorable!! But, this guy wants his attention too LOL

[tblue37]

4. How adorable! Thanks!

[mjvpi]

5. Heard her on the hill above m house last night. Lookin' for love.

[hlthe2b]

6. My dog and I came within the length of a fooball field from one on a walk on a Golden, CO trail one year...

The County Park Ranger managed to wave us off before we continued on that way, blissfully unknowing what lay ahead. We were late in the afternoon for our daily walk--far too late apparently...

Still, I think mountain lions are just about the most beautiful of the big cats--not that they don't have competition--but I just love them!

[JMCKUSICK]

7. That might be the cutest kitty I've ever seen

Thank you tblue37.

[slightlv]

8. OMG! How could anything be THAT cute!!!

So adorable, you just want to pick him up and love all over him!

[ReRe]

9. Can one imagine how that photographer felt when he/she captured it?

I would have wept. It had to be a remote camera. Or at a zoo. The only time I have ever seen a cub smile like that was in a cartoon!

[KPN]

10. Awww. Everybody should see this. Kicked, kicked, kicked.

[TBF]

11. Definitely the best thing

I've seen on the Internet this week!

[Figarosmom]

12. Yes he is the cutest...nt

[Warpy]

13. When I grow up, I'll be able to get you down in two gulps

New, that kitty is cute, really cute.

True story: in one of my old neighborhoods, a panel truck illegally transporting a full grown Bengal tiger to a show in Las Vegas stopped at motel overnight. Some local thugs broke into the van and let the kittyt out.

People opening a Taco Bell the next day got a surprise, big tiger lounging in front of one of the doors. They went into the other one and called animal control...who didn't seem all that surprised. The fast food people said the tiger seemed pretty tame but they bet he was hungry.

Having no one get particularly excited by a Bengal tiger out loose in the neighborhood is one of the reasons I love this town.

[Cne99999]

14. Not that it matters, but that's A.I. generated.

Still one of the cutest pics I've seen in a long time.

[highplainsdem]

15. It's very cute. It's also AI-generated, from this YouTube account:

https://youtube.com/@pets-dog-cat/featured

From the YouTube shorts page there

https://youtube.com/@pets-dog-cat/shorts

and I've changed the links so the short videos will appear here, not just the link.

Btw, whoever has this account apparently spent a lot of time generating short videos to get some that were good enough to post. But you can still see some AI glitches. It's likely they made hundreds of attempts per video. But the videos they finally got have millions or hundreds of thousands of views, so they apparently thought the effort was worth it.

A slightly different version - and notice the morphing/rippling of the cub's hindquarters in both videos:

Palm-size tiger:

Another palm-size tiger - and notice there's a spike growing out the side of its right hind paw.

Palm-size peacock - with the bird constantly morphing:

Tiger cub playing violin, and morphing:

Btw, before I found that YouTube account, I looked at hundreds of photos of real tiger cubs. None of which had the same kittenish face as the one in the OP. Then I just did a Google search for the image, found those videos at the top of my post, saw some comments on each saying it was AI. Then when I checked the YouTube account it was obvious they were using AI, and they especially like tiger cubs.

I'd seen the miniature peacock before, in an article on AI slop messing up Google Images so that AI image showed up at the top then if you searched for "peacock."