Liz Langley

If you can't look anything cute - baby, animal or baby animal, without thinking  “I just want to squish your face!” I have good news for you.  For my latest NatGeo story Professors Hiroshi Nittono of Hiroshima University and Yale psychologist Oriana Aragon both answered questions about  Why We Want to Squeeze Cute Animals on Weird Animal Question of the Week. If you’re a cheek pincher, an ear nibbler or a smotherer-with-kisses this is your chance to find out what’s wrong with you….which is nothing. The article explains why it’s actually a helpful emotion.  Of course I watch cute animal videos like everyone else. It’s my job to watch baby monkeys riding on baby pigs (plus this video has one of the catchiest tunes ever).  As cute as animals are, though it doesn’t get any cuter than these babies (who are actually full-fledged kids now) the Song Triplets. I discovered these adorable brothers on the Korean reality show  The Return of ...