Cutest Animal Photos Of 2010: Baby Dolphin, Monkey Riding Boar, Panda, Gorilla, Tiger Cub, Bear And More

If our Animal Photos Of The Week makes your week, then this set of photos will make your year!

2010 brought a whole bundle of adorable baby animals into the world. From an injured baby dolphin to a baby monkey riding a baby boar, and countless newborn pandas, gorillas, tigers, lions and so much more -- we've brought you the most heartstring-yanking pictures.

Warning: These photos are highly addictive and enjoyable. Do not attempt to look at these photos until you are thoroughly ready to procrastinate and are prepared to melt over the adorableness of these animals.

Which picture do you think is the cutest of the cute? Let us know by voting, and share your thoughts in the comments.

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Richard Tesore, Director of the marine fauna reserve 'SOS Fauna Marina' holds a baby dolphin in a pool in Punta Colorada, department of Maldonado 100 km east of Montevideo on November 5, 2010. The little dolphin of about 10 days, was found by tourists, apparently showing marks of a fishing net. (MIGUEL ROJO/AFP/Getty Images)

Baby Dolphin

Richard Tesore, Director of the marine fauna reserve 'SOS Fauna Marina' holds a baby dolphin in a pool in Punta Colorada, department of Maldonado 100 km east of Montevideo on November 5, 2010. The little dolphin of about 10 days, was found by tourists, apparently showing marks of a fishing net. (MIGUEL ROJO/AFP/Getty Images)

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[totaldisbelief]

05:34 PM on 01/02/2011

nobody is mentioning the large number of deaths of dolphins in the Gulf

[Olivia Green]

11:13 PM on 01/01/2011

I have a prairie dog (little squirrel eating a carrot) They are wonderful!

[youngbuck]

11:25 AM on 01/01/2011

oh my goodness, soooo cute.

[Elizabeth Swigar]

08:19 PM on 12/29/2010

Too cute!

[CHMB]

12:00 PM on 12/29/2010

So much cute!

[ginamarie101]

11:06 AM on 12/30/2010

absolutely

[CHMB]

01:36 PM on 12/30/2010

Have you ever checked out zooborns?

http://www.zooborns.com/

[kerry1962]

05:12 AM on 12/29/2010

All lovely in their own way, but the Rhesus Monkey licking the paint chips.....LMAO - humans really are related to monkies!

[Chaucea]

07:48 PM on 12/28/2010

OMGWEEE! OTTERS!! :-D

[chiropter]

07:00 PM on 12/28/2010

I suspected that baby dolphin didn't last long. I was right.
Further, the rescue institute's website says: "At least 1500 adult dolphins are caught in gill nets each year along the 4000km of coastline that links Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. But scientists say the toll could be much higher."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/28/cutest-animal-photos-of-2010_n_799326.html#
Drift netting, gill netting, long lining- these things need to be outlawed. Not the least so that we will actually have something to fish for in 30 years.

[Brookland Jones]

06:44 PM on 12/28/2010

How can anyone rate these when they are all soooo dang cute?!?!?

[eric14]

06:39 PM on 12/28/2010

Some of our relatives looking good.

[mrs adler]

03:56 PM on 12/28/2010

Oh God I want a baby tiger and cheetah and anything! Come to me baby animals!!!

[TwentiethBear]

02:02 PM on 12/28/2010

Can someone at Huffpo fix Big Shots please? A. I don't want to use it when I could just click through on the page I wanted and B. it doesn't work! Last time it crashed my computer, this time it just didn't load any of the pictures!

[Brookland Jones]

06:43 PM on 12/28/2010

Same here! I don't care for Big Shots at all!

[Mowgli Filo]

01:56 PM on 12/28/2010

One of the photos is labelled "Panther." Panthers aren't actually a type of animal. Jaguars (South America), Cougars (North America), and Leopards (Africa) all can come in a black color morph that makes them "panthers" and they are all colloquially known as "black panthers" instead of "black jaguars" etc.

Just a lil F.Y.I.

[VeroucaSalt]

03:08 PM on 12/28/2010

If they are not an animal, what are they? A plant?

[Fi]

01:14 PM on 12/28/2010

Everyone one of them is just adorable, lets just leave them all alone to get on with their lives.

[KIVPossum]

01:04 PM on 12/28/2010

Like to look at them, but I refuse to wade through Big Shots again.

[Robyn Twango]

02:14 PM on 12/28/2010

Glad to see I'm not alone. Can't stand the Big Shots.

[SugarSnaps]

06:21 PM on 12/28/2010

Ditto.