Summary Of Cute Factor By Angier

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Introduction

Wild animal for years attract people, and this has resulted in the growth of animal

reserves and parks. However, some animals win people favor than others such as panda. For

example, Angier states that millions of Americans traveled from far to see the panda for a few

seconds. Angier refers to this affection to panda as panda-mania. Angier says that people were

paying $100 per head to see the Tai Shan which was four years old living in Smithsonian zoo.

This paper aims at analyzing cute factor articles by Angier.

Summary of Cute factor by Angier

Angier article argues that people are attracted to the panda giant especially cub known as

Tai Shan. The main aim of Angier’s paper was to describe what constituted to cuteness and how

it controlled the people. Angier described how women abandoned descent dresses for the cute

ones. Angier describes that cute things stimulated pleasure centers in the brain making one feel

pleasure similar to the one experienced when one takes stimulants such as cocaine. The evidence

was people automatically smiling while around the zoo watching giant panda. The implication

being that just as cocaine was addictive just as the cuteness of panda and that is why people were

willing to pay a lot of money to see the Tai Shan for a few seconds. Angier describes how people

exclaimed watching the panda wondering how cute it was and fuzzy. Some people were heard

saying that it was the cutest thing they had ever seen in their lives. Angier reported that scientist

had found what constituted to a cute animal and had found the following. Bright colored, round

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head and stature, side-to-side gait, big eyes, ears and eyes set at a low part of the head topped the

findings. The panda had all these desirable features, and this explained why people were willing

to spend a fortune for a chance to see the panda among other cute animals. Angier also explained

that human was naturally attracted to the baby and willing to love them and since the panda had

all the characteristic that babies possess it was considered cute (Angier n.p.).

Angier elaborated that anything that is bright colored, young, harmless and looks soft was

considered cute. Angier said that cuteness was commonplace and gave an example of a manatee

which is found in Florida and is very big. Manatee is soft, slow and has round face which looks

like a potato, and yet people find it cute and pay for a moment with this animal in the water. The

scientist stated that since today’s life is moving very fast having to watch manatee move slowly

makes one relax and thus why people loved the watched manatee. Angier explained that cute

factor was in play in advertisement evidenced by the use of cartoons that were young and round

and bright colored. Manipulation of cuteness enabled advertisement message to appeal to people

every time they watched the ad making thus increasing the sales of the intended product. Angier

described penguin as another cute animal and stated that their cuteness was attributed to the fact

that they were upright, and had a bright colored tuxedo. And also their waddling gait when

moving. Angier concludes her article by stating that cute factor is in play and thus why many

products and adverts are brightly colored and cartoon-like to appeal to people through cuteness

factor (Angier n.p.).

Bibliography of Angier, the author

Angier is columnist from 2007. Angier works for the New York Times, and before then

she was working at the times since 1990. Angier has always explored the natural occurrences

through examining current events. Angier was the senior editor at Times magazine. Angier has

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written a couple of books such as natural obsession and others. Through her career, Angier has

won many awards such as Putlizer, Lewis Thomas, AAAS-Westinghouse among others. Angier

is also one of the voting members of the American Heritage Dictionary. Angier was the best

American science writer as per 2009, and therefore she is credible as the author of the paper. The

intended audience is the US people who love animal beauty and who wish to have an in-depth

understanding of how nature works. The indented purpose of the article was to inform people

about panda affection and why people found them fascinating (Angier n.p.).

Summary of Angier article “On Galápagos, Revealing the

Blue-Footed Booby’s True Colors”

Angier in this article argues that booby a common bird at Galápagos Island is cute too

just like panda and penguins. Angier describes the bird’s life explain how they survive and why

they attract tourists. Angier describes how the male booby dances; raising one foot at a time as if

the ground has wax to ensure that the female booby sees the feet. The booby webbed feet are

bright blue and as research has found the blue color represents the health of the booby. The

female booby has to like the blue feet of the male dancing so that they can mate. Human too does

select the best partner to reproduce with to ensure their offspring survival. Booby breed with the

healthy booby and therefore with time they have been able to accumulate the desired features

such as blue feet. The phenomenon of selecting the healthy mate is referred selective sexism

coined by Darwin. Angier describes the mating process which is similar to human the female

booby must consent. The booby is cute, and they attract people from all over the world to look at

them as they do they dance and mate. The booby is not afraid of human as other birds, and

therefore one can walk between them and see their round forehead, direct eye, and bright colored

feet. Angier describes how booby fight for scars resources such as nesting site for survival.

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People find booby to be fascinating because of their colorful feathers, round ears, and their direct

facing eyes. Additionally, the booby is soft and harmless. Angier reported findings of research

that was done on booby that they were not affected by challenges they faced when young. The

study had found that the booby was able to be healthy and confident adult able to get healthy

partners and bring their offspring with protection from bullies (Angier n.p.).

Counter-argument for Angier Point of view

Studies found that people are attracted to strange wild animals that are rare to find and

thus why many people travel for hours and even days to see an animal (Tratnyek n.p.; Tucker

n.p.). The rarest animal attracts people, and they do not fit cute factor bracket such as buffalo

which do not resemble a baby in any aspect (Tratnyek n.p.; Tucker n.p.). It is not only panda that

attracts people but also other wild animals such as lion, buffalo among many other (Tratnyek

n.p.). In a different study, the panda is found to be cute that it controls people behavior at some

level, but also other wild animals have the same effects, for example, some dancers were noted

to jump like panda (Tucker n.p.). However, Angier findings are reliable and therefore explains

why adverts use cartoons to attract people attention. The choice of Angier topics was relevant

because they hook ones attention when reading. For example, the cute factor is attracting one

attention, and one wants to know what is cute and why is it cute and what measures the cuteness.

Angier excel in writing science articles as evidenced by her ability to deliver her message.

Conclusion

Angier articles cute factor delineates that panda attracts millions of people because their

looks resemble that of a baby. Angier in the two papers describes that the features such as soft,

colored, round ears and direct eyes make the panda very cute that one cannot stop staring at the

panda. Angier explains that it is the same factors that make other animals such as penguin and

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booby cute. However, another school of thought argues that other wild animals too attract people

and they do not possess the cute factor features as described by Angier. The applicability of cute

factors in advertisement makes Angier argument valid.

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Works Cited

Angier, Natalie. "The Cute Factor." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News &

Multimedia, 3 Jan. 2006, www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/science/the-cute-factor.html.

Accessed 28 Nov. 2017.

Angier, Natalie. "On Galápagos, Revealing the Blue-Footed Booby?s True Colors." The New

York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia, 11 Mar. 2017,

www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/science/galapagos-blue-footed-boobies.html. Accessed

28 Nov. 2017.

Tratnyek, Chris. "Panda Attraction." San Diego Zoo Blog, 11 Jan. 2012,

blogs.sandiegozoo.org/2010/03/10/panda-attraction/. Accessed 28 Nov. 2017.

Tucker, Abigail. "The Science Behind Why Pandas Are So Damn

Cute." Smithsonian, Nov. 2013, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-science-behind-

why-pandas-are-so-damn-cute-4271947/. Accessed 28 Nov. 2017.

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