Some animals are dangerously cute—and we mean that literally. Some of these critters like cute enough to cuddle, but with secret deadly defenses. Join Michael Aranda for a new Animal-centered episode of SciShow!
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Sources:
http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/natures-...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Pufferfish:
http://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/13/10/6...
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5879406/how-th...
Poison dart frog:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/201504...
Slow loris:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-n...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
https://primatology.net/2010/10/19/ar...
Platypus:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/...
Spiny mice:
http://news.discovery.com/animals/spi...
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/...
Dolphins:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/201602...
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.c...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
Sea otters:
https://www.fort.usgs.gov/sites/defau...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/217...
Ducks:
http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscie...
Moon snail:
http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/a...
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f...
Ladybugs:
http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/cont...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/201505...

Images:
Pufferfish:
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Poison dart frog:
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https://flic.kr/p/gRYCXh
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Slow loris:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Platypus:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Spiny mice:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Dolphins:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Sea otters:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Ducks:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://flic.kr/p/5PfMWH
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Moon snail:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Ladybugs:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...