The Damascus goat takes the cake for me!

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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.
Proboscis monkey

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Might as well be a first stage evolution Pokémon it looks so different.

preposterous creature as an adult wtf
Hippos.
I mean look at this cute little shit…

He’s going to grow up to be a 3-ton water-borne death machine.
Even the three ton ones are cute too.
Wild boars. We need an antonym for "glow up."

Fade down
I believe the kids these days say "chopped"
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.
This little cutie will grow up to be an adult Canada Goose.


When I was four or five I went to the zoo with school, when we were being told about Canadian Geese my teacher asked where they were from. Canadian Geese have come up one time too many today for me not to tell that story.
"Hell."
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.
If we're talking about the cuteness difference between baby and adult stages, pigs.
Somebody already beat me to gosling, but have another

And another. This is the same bird a month later.


Cats, obviously. Like yeah cats are cute, but kittens are the cutest thing in the world.
Humans

Y'all gonna hate me, but dogs. Most dogs are absolutely hideous creatures, but puppies are usually legitimately pretty cute.
Golden Retrievers are cute into adulthood. My neighbor's got one, he's a 90 pound smile.
There’s plenty of less than glowing adjectives for dogs but “hideous” is a real choice
Cats. Cats are cute, kittens are OMG LOOK AT THE WIDDLE TOES!
For me kittens are like passing through the other side of cuteness. Cats are very cute, kittens are just too much.
You know in futurama when bender orders a statue of "ridiculous proportions" built, then when it's done he's like, "no, that's too big, try again and this time don't embarrass yourselves.'
That's how i feel about kittens. No, that's too cute. Try again and this time don't embarrass yourself.
A stack overflow of cuteness. I'll take it.
Kittens are hugely cute. Cats are “stop pissing in that box you little fuck”.

Almost all. That’s the point.
It would be significantly harder to provide the opposite.
Butterflies come to mind.
Caterpillars are plain & become beautiful as butterflies or full peacocks that turn into drab AF adults.
Baby Shark do do dodo do
Guinea pig babies are pretty damn adorable, but so are adult guinea pigs. I don't know how to calculate the difference in cuteness.
"They put the boy in with the girls, and this is the result."

