22 May 2021, 06:13 BST
Wild animal selfies on social media might make kids squeal with delight, but the critters like this sloth in Peru are often kept illegally for tourists to handle and might be living in unhealthy conditions.
Photograph by Kirsten Luce, National Geographic
If a youngster has a TikTok account and they love animals, they may find their feed filling up with a stream of irresistible critters doing irresistibly cute things from puppies, rabbits, cats to slow lorises, monkeys, chimpanzees, and tigers.
After all, who doesn’t love a cute video of a domestic cat pouncing on its owner’s head? But animal-loving young people can also inadvertently get served a regular stream of problematic wildlife content without even realising it.