National Geographic has photos of two newly discovered critters with faces that resemble teddy bears. The first is the 8" Chinese pica called an "Ili," you can view its mug shot here. Pikas are short-eared relations of rabbits and hares.
The second little guy lives in the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador and is the first new carnivore find in the western hemisphere in 30 years. It is called an "olinguito," weighs 2 pounds, and is the smallest known relative of the raccoon. See its photo here.
Both of these cute little fellows live at altitude, the olinguito above 5000 feet and the Ili lives above 9000 feet. If the Ili is like most picas, it holes up under the snow for the winter, feeding on carefully gathered little "haystacks" of grasses and other plant matter.
