Watch these adorable quokkas react to a juggling circus performer

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They are much smaller than I imagined them to be, but if they were larger the cuteness factor would probably overload the universe.

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I heard recently that quokkas witth throw their babies at a threatening predator as a diversion to escape. Maybe the quokkas thought he was tossing his babies about unnecessarily…

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It’s true,
From an evolutionary standpoint the thinking goes that it’s better to lose this baby and have another one later, than stay and fight.

Further proof that Nature is a real mother

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“Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.” ~ Richard Dawkins

But your version is more succinct.

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