“Hm Yes Good Point, Scientists, But Have You Considered: It’s Really Cute?”

I have some exciting news to share today!!!!

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) January 26, 2015

Oh yeesh. Remember last week when I was in a good mood? I was so young and innocent and pre-Mercury-retrograde back then! That was before the great Kim Kardashian Betrayal of January 2015, as scientists will no doubt call it in their studies; like, it is just not ok to tweet this and then follow it up with this because that infers a very different understanding of the words “exciting news,” particularly in this parched new-Kanye-album-less landscape we’ve found ourselves in.

Ok I’m just going to self-soothe with this article on animal friendships.

Yet until recently, any suggestion that interspecies relationships might be based simply on companionship would probably have been met with derision, dismissed as Pixar-like anthropomorphism. That has changed as research has gradually eroded some boundaries between homo sapiens and other animals. Other species, it turns out, share abilities once considered exclusive to humans, including some emotions, tool use, counting, certain aspects of language and even a moral sense.

Hm yes good point but mostly asdkfjsd such a cute video!! Did you see the bird helping the dog steal spaghetti?!!?

Ugh though even this article gets a little too real for my liking:

In some popular online videos, Dr. King noted, these criteria are clearly missing. In a YouTube clip depicting a hamster on the back of a snake, for example, it is unclear if the two are best buddies or whether the snake is simply not hungry.

Um. Ok. I just want to think about animals being cute with each other. Can you chill.