The Damascus goat takes the cake for me!
From anime familiar, to miniboss
From “the Antichrist trying to deceive you” to “the actual Antichrist”
Seems to be a super old breed, like I couldn’t even find a guess at when they were established.
But they were just the generic goat for a big area where both goats were important, and established trade routes allowed a high degree of genetic variation at first. But then the adults that were allowed to reproduce were always the ones who produced the most milk and meat.
Absolutely zero care about how an adult looked, zero aesthetics. If that weird ass adult look wasn’t tied to something that makes more milk and cheese, it wouldn’t be that weird.
However the breeders know all things being equal, customers would pay more for a goat that didn’t look like ass.
So when choosing which to breed, you pick the most aesthic looking goats hoping for a higher price for the offspring. But with those weird ass adult dreams (almost certainly) increasing milk/meat yield, and everyone wanting to buy the milk goat that looks least hideous…
That split between infant and adult makes sense.
Hippos.
I mean look at this cute little shit…
He’s going to grow up to be a 3-ton water-borne death machine.
Proboscis monkey
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Might as well be a first stage evolution Pokémon it looks so different.
Wild boars. We need an antonym for “glow up.”
Fade down
This little cutie will grow up to be an adult Canada Goose.
Baby crocodiles
Alligators stay kinda cute looking. I took pictures of this guy at my work until management had him removed.
I grew up with a pet alligator, she got to around 5ft. Spent a good portion of her life sleeping under my bed and she’d walk herself to the tub when she wanted a swim. They’re cute as the dickens and she actually had an amazing temperment.
Gotta be Hyenas
Dude, Hyinas are fucking huge. You see them on TV and they’re small compared to stuff around it. They’re closer to taller than a person by a few feet.
Somebody already beat me to gosling, but have another
And another. This is the same bird a month later.
Cats. Cats are cute, kittens are OMG LOOK AT THE WIDDLE TOES!
Cats, obviously. Like yeah cats are cute, but kittens are the cutest thing in the world.
Almost all. That’s the point.
If we’re talking about the cuteness difference between baby and adult stages, pigs.
Every animal?
Nah, baby birds are gross looking.
The ugly duckling is canonically ugly until it grows up
Newborn cats and dogs look like little rats…
Baby Shark do do dodo do
ferrets.
In this theme: rats.
Rats are like baby ferrets, but less aggressive hehe
( i know ferrets are generally not aggressive but my experience with them is the opposite… )
