(ANIMAL PICTURES/WILDLIFE) There’s nothing better than 25 pictures of animals at their best—happy faces, giddy leaps, and sweet, precious hearts.
Here are some magnificently happy animals who’ve clearly figured something out worth sharing with the rest of us (when they’re done frolicking or whatever). Enjoy! — Global Animal
The 25 Happiest Animals In The World
Courtesy of BuzzFeed

1. This Elephant
Secret To Happiness: Ability to blow water out of nose; having no particular place to be.
Favorite Thing: Hurrying anyway.

2. Boo, The Pomeranian
Secret To Happiness: Seizing the day; seeing the silver lining; dressing up like a bear occasionally.
Favorite Thing: Literally everything.

3. This Rabbit
Secret To Happiness: Looking adversity in the face and squawking contentedly at it.
Favorite Thing: Apartment-grade carpeting.

4. This Seal
Secret To Happiness: An abiding awareness that life is a series of profound absurdities that are beyond his control and, more importantly, not his fault.
Favorite Thing: Mostly just seal stuff.

5. This Cat
Secret To Happiness: A high-minded and esoteric sense of humor.
Favorite Thing: Cat food.

6. This Crocodile
Secret To Happiness: Lives in a river.
Favorite Thing: Probably biting things.

7. This Dog
Secret To Happiness: An unshakeable belief that the simple things in life require all of our attention all of the time.
Favorite Thing: Drooling.

8. This Stoat
Secret To Happiness: Advanced hopping/pouncing ability.
Favorite Thing: Eating small rodents.

9. This Sloth
Secret To Happiness: Strong sense of self worth.
Favorite Thing: Looking smug.

10. This Squirrel
Secret To Happiness: Hard work; simple, old-fashioned, American values.
Favorite Thing: Being a homeowner.

11. This Seal
Secret To Happiness: Lives on the beach.
Favorite Thing: Jokes.

12. This Anteater
Secret To Happiness: Welcomes each new opportunity with open arms and a glad heart.
Favorite Thing: Ants, probably.

13. These Meerkats
Secret To Happiness: Delight in companionship.
Favorite Thing: Eating small rodents.

14. This Elephant Seal
Secret To Happiness: Good humor, kindness, relentless optimism, and a long floppy nose-like facial appendage.
Favorite Thing: Calamari.

15. This Owl
Secret To Happiness: Ability to see the fun side of everything; ability to rotate neck 270 degrees in either direction.
Favorite Thing: Eating small rodents.

16. This Dog
Secret To Happiness: Persistent, unmitigated enthusiasm without context.
Favorite Thing: Interrupting.

17. This Rabbit
Secret To Happiness: Getting it. Just getting it.
Favorite Thing: Seeing the bigger picture.

18. This Owl
Secret To Happiness: Wisdom, grace, refinement, and a philosophical temperament.
Favorite Thing: Eating small rodents.

19. This Owl
Secret To Happiness: An unabashed sense of wonder at the everyday marvels that the world has to offer.
Favorite Thing: Being a little owl.

20. This Puffer Fish
Secret To Happiness: Taking life as it comes.
Favorite Thing: Being the second-most poisonous vertebrate on the planet.

21. This Baby Elephant
Secret To Happiness: Seeing each new challenge as an opportunity.
Favorite Thing: Rolling in trash.

22. This Duckling
Secret To Happiness: Buoyancy, levity, and an enviable knack for discovering joy in the little things.
Favorite Thing: Actually being one of the little things.

23. This Dog With Spaghetti On His Face
Secret To Happiness: A fierce, unshakeable hopefulness paired with a realistic understanding of his place in the world.
Favorite Thing: Licking spaghetti off own face.

24. This Bulldog
Secret To Happiness: Stopping to smell the roses; stopping to smell everything else.
Favorite Thing: Smelling things.

25. This Lamb
Secret To Happiness: Constant prancing.
Favorite Thing: Constant prancing.
More BuzzFeed: http://www.buzzfeed.com/paws/happiest-animals-in-the-world
Time to change our diets? So many listed their Favorite Thing as "eating small rodents."
All are adorable, but the crocodile and the lamb ate my favorites <3
I think happiness is all about wonder. We call it other things sometimes: anticipation or thankfulness or enthusiasm or exuberance. But really if we keep & nourish the sense of wonder all creatures are born with we could all be happy.
everyone is so cute makes me smile.
Wonderful, thank you.
Hmm. It seems to me that the thing a lot of these animals have in common is that they love to eat rodents. Is there something in that?
No, probably not. =]
Wonderful!
<3