”Accord­ing to Lorenz, the same visu­al cues can arouse us to equal­ly intense care­giv­ing when we encounter them in exag­ger­at­ed and dis­tilled form in ani­mals, such as birds and pup­pies, and even in dum­my mod­els, such as ted­dy bears.”

Why the pow­er of cute is colonis­ing our world