Yeah, sooo true...

I like the contrast between the blue-blue eyes and the little pink mouths on the kittens. So cool! Most baby animals are adorable. The exception might be a Joey--kinda unfinished looking, like a worm or something.

I think its a young lynx and hasn't grown to its full size. Remember the big paws on young cats? That may explain the discrepancy in size.

You're probably right about it being a young cat but Google Lynx images and they seem to have a proportionately smaller head than most big cats. :)

It could be the winter coat throwing off the proportions as well.

For the domesticated variety of the medium-sized hunting cat:
Savannah Cats
They're still pretty expensive (around $800 for non-breeding males) but they're lots of fun to play with.

Awwww....look how cuuuute....

Lynxes are just gorgeous.

Maybe the tufts on the ears have something to do with blending into their environment. Twigs in dappled sunlight...or something....

they are just so cute!!

I have four kittens (now about 3-4 months old) and when i got my twins i was convinced they were retard kittens.. but after a while their head grew to proportion of their body.. and now they look much better!!

Maybe the serve the same purpose as whiskers, to help them know when they're trying to fit into too small a space.

That would make sense...since their head is proportionately smaller than most cats it would make sure their shoulders would fit where their head in going. :idea:

That, and they're [ mike myers voice ] dead sexy [/ mike myers voice ].

Stop that...it's a MAN, baby. :blush:

I was told by my HS physics teacher that on siamese cats the dark ear points were little solar gain patches too assist with warming the ears at the outer extremities where the circulation wasn't so good.

Mind you, this is the same teacher who once had our art teacher convinced for several days that moving objects don't reflect light. (he proved this with a polaroid photograph of a moving object at an exposure too slow to record said moving object, the back ground was fine)

Siamese cats requiring heat gain? They are Siamese, ie an Asian breed. They only want to lie in the shade all day panting. The last thing they want is to gain heat.
Why they have dark ears? Signaling to other Siamese cats?

Siamese didn't evolve that way; human beings bred them to look distinctive. You'd have to ask the folks who ran the breeding program why they look like they do.