A January Storm of the Wildest Animal Memes for Wholesome Nights of Scroll

Briana Viser • Writer and Editor

Jan 27, 2026 1:00 PM EST

Thunder, lightning, and animals!

The definition of a storm is "any disturbed state of the natural environment or the atmosphere of an astronomical body," but it's not really how we think of storms. When we think of a storm, we easily imagine thunder, lightning, clouds, grey skies, rain, wind, and anything else that causes strong feelings in us. It's like two cymbals colliding – crashing sounds, heavy winds and rain, water and wetness everywhere. Depending on where you are in the world, you may be experiencing storm weather as we speak, and some of you may be experiencing sunshine and flip flops. If you are the former whose experiencing storms of mayhem, then the best way to deal with it is by scrolling wholesome animal memes from the comfort of your bed.

Evening is really peak scrolling time. During the day you're working, you're busy, you're hyper fixated on solving a problem and don't have the time convenience to just sit around scrolling. If everyone sat around scrolling all day, nothing would ever get done! It's a good thing people have the discipline not to. So anyway, you get home from work, you shower, eat dinner, and get ready to do it all the next day. But one thing keeps you up at night, and that's the good old fashioned scroll that you looked forward to all day.

Scrolling animal memes is particularly invigorating and inviting. It's cozy to see funny and adorable animals doing their strange and weird things. There's nothing funnier than animal memes because they're so effortlessly comedians. To celebrate the first month of what will be an incredible year, let yourself scroll to your heart's desire when you get home. Save the social stuff, productive thing, and working on yourself for spring or summer. Winter is too perfect to curl up in bed and ignore the world.

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What's your favorite animal? If I had to say mine it would be a red panda. They're so cute and cuddly, unique in color and personality. No one would expect it! Is it a racoon, is it a bear, is it a fox? It's a panda! The most surprising thing.
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