Animals Who Think Objects To Be Their Moms

I had a chick who thought my walking robot was its mom, but these are more adorable... and they're orphans, sad... there's your fix of emo-ness today...

With her hazel eyes, mop of fluffy grey hair, and tiny black face, this cute baby lemur looks happy to have found something to cling on to.


A group of orphaned baby owls cuddle up to an owl stuffed toy which has become their surrogate mum after they were found on the brink of death in the wild


The tiny Siamang gibbon snuggles up with her surrogate mother, a toy camel. She cries like a human infant if the toy is out of reach.


Four tiny orphaned hedgehogs are snuggling up to the bristles of... a cleaning brush - because they think it's their mother.


A baby penguin which had to be separated from its family after a greedy sibling continually ate all its food (what a douchebag of a sibling!)has found companionship - with this stuffed toy.

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