Culture Buzz A Baby Spider Monkey named Estela has been spurned by her mother. The staff of The Melbourne Zoo are keeping Estela company 24 hours a day, and providing her with toys to help ease the trauma of being shunned. She has taken to clinging onto one as much as she can. Sad, but Estela is so cute! (Via The Uniblog)
Hey little guy, are you lost? D'aww…wait, now there are two. Four? Twenty? OH GOD.
Culture Buzz Ok, so I have this obsession with animals holding stuffed animals. This is my collection so far… do you have any to add? Bonus points for animals holding toys of the same species (because it makes them adorably stupid as well as just adorable).
Plush toys in formaldehyde, from a 2008 art exhibition in Paris. [Editor's Note: This is like Damien Hirst meets Disney. It's creepy and adorable at the same time. I just hope they died of natural causes.]
Created by artist and DIY-er Becky Stern, this cozy stuffed femur is based off of pictures from her recent knee surgery. Nothing like cuddling with your own anatomically accurate femur.