Endangered Siberian tigers number less than 500 in the wild. Zoos are working to keep the species alive, including through artificial insemination.

Cue the friendly roughhousing.

He’ll grow up with another tiger cub.

That makes one of us.

Well, would you look at that wriggling ball of cuteness.

He is here to make babies.

Having April Fools’ Day fall on a Friday usually means the stream of jokes and hoaxes will keep trickling throughout the weekend news cycle. In this case, we couldn’t help but post the National Zoo’s horrific — or uber-squee-worthy, depending on how you look at it — contribution: a super animal mashup of two endangered species. According to the caption, the zoo will be “combining 2 endangered species conservation programs by combining 2 endangered species.” There’s no doubt that if the zoo ever ironed out the kinks in the insemination process and pulled this off, the panda and tiger would no longer be endangered, not for its epic animal skills, but rather because every child in the world would want one. Just imagine what the cubs would look like. In fact, don’t, you’re head might explode from the massive rush of erupting squee.

Loof lirpa, I believe you’ve met your match.