Gotta start 'em young

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1.

Susan Bermann with a very confused swallowtail butterfly
Photo by John Bermann

2.

Six-year-old Mason Brumley hugging his pet chicken, Love Bird, in Springville, California, USA
Video is fifteen seconds
SEE IT: Boy shares touching hug with his ‘Love Bird’ chicken

3.
Girl enjoying the Humboldt penguin exhibit at Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, Washington, USA
Photo by Jennifer Svane

4.
Girl photographing a sulphur-crested cockatoo

5.
Mongolian girl singing with a camel
The Story of the Weeping Camel, 2003

6.
Risby with Izzy, the photographer’s little girl
Photo by Laura Osborne

7.

Child running with the river otters, San Diego Zoo, San Diego, California, USA. Video is forty-nine seconds

8.
Four-year-old girl with a Western fence lizard she caught
Photo by Kimberly Beck Rubio

9.
Seven-year-old daughter of a mahout (elephant driver) walking with her best friend, a four-month-old orphaned elephant, Mudumalai, Tamil Nadu, India
Photo by Olaf Rocksien

10.
Monk and child placing a Cantor’s giant soft-shelled turtle hatchling into a holding pond, Mekong Turtle Conservation Centre, Sambor, Cambodia
Mekong Turtle Conservation Centre Releases 100 Rare Turtles into Mekong River

11.
Little girl playing with a friendly cat
Photo by Jason Webster

12.
Dyllan Spitzley holding her giant chinchilla rabbit Sadie at the Routt County Fair, Hayden, Colorado, USA
Photo by Scott Franz

13.
Lola makes friends with a bat ray, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California, USA
Little Hiccups blog post

14.
Little girl meets a big manatee, SeaWorld Orlando, Orlando, Florida, USA
Photo by Christopher Wright

15.
Six-year-old girl taking home her new puppy Leela
Original Reddit post

16.
Boy riding a Galapagos tortoise, New York Zoological Park, New York City, New York, USA
Photo from this 1926 monograph about Galapagos tortoises

17.
Eight-year-old Matteo Walch greeting a member of the marmot colony he befriended in the Austrian Alps
The marmots and me

18.
Girl taking a nap with her cow at the New York State Fair, Syracuse, New York, USA
Reddit post

19.
Jason holding his Samoyed Skookum, Seattle, Washington, USA
(OK, the first pic isn’t actually them. See the post.)

20.
Two boys taking in the Kelp Forest exhibit at Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California, USA
Photo by Ashley Schill

Also posted to randompictures, and a selection to splodefromcute