Did you know that cats can make nearly 300 unique facial expressions? Or that facially expressive monkeys make better leaders?
In the animal kingdom, facial expressions are very important, as they act as a means of communication, similar to the human world. However, animals, just like us, can’t always control their facial expressions, which results in a plethora of goofy moments caught on camera.
Many of them you’ll find below, carefully curated by our Bored Panda team. Scroll down to enjoy them, and don’t forget to upvote the kings and queens of derpy faces!
#1 There Are Two Types Of Horses
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#2 In Front Of Me In Line To Sign In At A Vet Office
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#3 My Dog Really Loves Bubbles
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#4 I Took My Puppy To Work Last Week. He Loved It
He definitely distracted people more than expected – but I think he was also a great for morale. Fortunately our HR dept is awesome and approved the visit on the condition that they got to meet him.
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#5 Took A Shot Of This Guy Yesterday, Guess He Wasn’t Too Happy About It
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#6 Honeybun’s Derp Face After The Dog Park
This was after her first ever dog park visit. Before I adopted her, she had never run in her life. She was confined to a cage her entire life of 1 year and 2 months as a “breeding investment”.
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#7 My Cat Is Very Photogenic
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#8 Horse With The Spirit Of Eddie Murphy’s Donkey In Shrek
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#9 Lilith Is On Cage Rest For A Little While And Peach Isn’t Taking It Very Well
Lilith had her hormone implant the other day so this is just a precautionary measure to make sure she doesn’t do too much to disturb the wound while it heals! Won’t be long before she’s out causing chaos again.
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#10 We Dug Her A Little Hole, And Now It’s Her Hole She Hides In To Pounce At Us From And This Is Her Face While She Does It
Literally does the same thing on flat ground thinking we can’t see her haha.
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#11 What Otter Mommy Does When Their Babies Refuse To Go School
Corrected: that wasn’t mommy. It was another member of the family.
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#12 Somebody Was Friendly Enough To Smile For The Camera
She didn’t SOUND very friendly, but look at that smile!
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#13 King Of The Side Eye
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#14 Some Owls Sleep Face Down Because Their Heads Are Too Heavy
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#15 Minerva Doing Her Best Spooky Face
Her full name is Minerva the Relentless, and her older sister is Atwater the Destroyer.
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#16 Rescued As A Sickly Fish In May 2020 vs. Present. Still A Huge Derp. Her Name Is Harriet
In the first picture she had pretty bad ammonia burns. And she was 4 months old but now, she almost 2 years old.
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#17 Firefox Has Encountered A Problem With Windows
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#18 Awwww Yyyaassss Errppllleesss
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#19 My Ferret’s Mugshot
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#20 Learning To Floss
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#21 When You Take That First Bite Of Your Great Aunt’s Fruit Cake
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#22 Oreo Speedwagon Heard Me Open A Cheese Wrapper While He Was Outside
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#23 Such A Cutie
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#24 This Is My Boy Bilbo Not Knowing What’s Going On Ever
He’s Lamancha/Nigerian mix!
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#25 This Photo Of Sophie Fits Here Perfectly
Sometimes I look at her and wonder if she’s real tbh.
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#26 Always One Cheeky One
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#27 Omg
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#28 Super Happy Flying Turtle
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#29 It’s Just Her Face. She’s The Sweetest Dog Ever. But She Constantly Looks Disappointed In Us
Husky mix of mysteries. Husband adopted her from a shelter 9 years ago. She’s atypical for a husky. She’s more like a cat…. obviously.
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#30 Derpy Bunny
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#31 “The Same Thing We Do Every Night Pinky”
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#32 Smile Pretty For The Camera
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#33 My Friend’s Dog Ate Edible Brownie Yesterday
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#34 I’m Not Sure What I Did, But I’m Sorry
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#35 Rexie: I Don’t Always Make Presents For My Hooman, But When I Do They’re Smelly
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#36 Her First Summer And Warm Weather Ride With The Windows Down
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#37 Doggo Looks Like Sid From Ice Age
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#38 My Little Cow-Cat, Oliver, Blepping
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#39 His Derpy Smile This Morning
His name is Summit.
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#40 Photogenic Cheetah Cubs At The Toronto Zoo Reminds Me Of Reese, Malcolm And Dewey
Their expressions say it all.
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#41 This Funny Hay Eating Horse
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#42 She Is Beauty, She Is Grace
This is my cat and she’s a lunatic :) I took about 50 pictures this afternoon and somehow I don’t think I’m ever going to top this one.
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#43 Someone Was Screaming Outside Our Apartment, Ben Was Very Concerned
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#44 She Is My Beautiful Derp
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#45 Tigers With Pumpkins Is Always A Good Time
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#46 I’ve Been Using Pics Of My Fave Dog At My Job As Reaction Images For A Whole Year… The Amount Of Emotion His Face Can Convey Is Endless
I don’t work on the days he comes in anymore and I go weeks without seeing him… I miss him so much and have videos of my reunions with him. Next time I see him I will absolutely give him extra love!!!
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#47 Just A Little Hamster Enjoying Some Snacks In Their Tiny Clay Cup
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#48 My Gecko Is More Photogenic Than Me
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#49 Every Day Is Better With A Little Alpaca In It
Mr Burns alien version.
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#50 Annie Presses Her Face Against The Door When I Come Home
Absolutely nothing but clown music in her head but she’s sweet.
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#51 Face Of Pure Pleasure
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#52 Taken From My Parents’ Kitchen Window. They Don’t Have Any Cats
This wouldn’t be the first time that cats have adopted them.
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#53 Asked My Mom To Take A Picture Of My Cat. Was Not Disappointed
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#54 Smiling Alpaca
Her name is Simona.
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#55 The Face He Makes When He’s About To Bark
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#56 My Dog Scout’s Rude Response To Getting Her Picture Taken
She is named after scout from to “K**l a Mockingbird”. It’s my mom’s favorite book.
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#57 Rawr
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#58 “So I Pretended To Throw A Ball And Caught The Exact Moment My Dog Realised I Had Betrayed Him”
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#59 I Heard This Belonged Here! My Mare During A Professional Photo Shoot
Although horses aren’t as easy to pose as humans, she was way more interested in the grass everywhere!
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#60 I Tried To Get A Nice Photo Of Him In The Sunlight. He Made This Face
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#61 Say Cheese Pancho
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#62 Adopted Either A Kitten Or A Gremlin With Ringworm So She Has To Have Lots Of Baths
Most animals will lose patches of fur, but Hazel (the kitten here) didn’t have any symptoms. She is an a symptomatic carrier apparently…which led to lots of cuddles and holding her until everyone started sprouting patches of the fungus and that’s when we took her to the vet. They did cultures and it came back positive.
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#63 Looking For The Weekend Like
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#64 Derpus Werewolfus
120 Lbs Of Silly German Shepherd. His Couch Is Behind My Desk And He Will Just Lay There Like This Watching Me Work For An Hour Or More At A Time. Love This Gentle Giant.
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#65 Nadine’s Face While Getting Some Tail Scratches
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#66 Oh Lawd She Smilin
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#67 Upside Down Picture Of Dog Lying Upside Down
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#68 The Majestic Beauty Of Bianca The Alpaca
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#69 When It Comes To His Lips, My Friend’s Guinea Pig Seriously Won The Genetic Lottery
He was born this fabulous!
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#70 This Is The Face Ghost Makes When He Wants To Be Petted
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#71 My Friend’s Husky Is Special
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#72 Hank Is So Excited To Be Snuggling With His Favorite Sheep
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#73 My Ridiculously Photogenic Fat Tail Gecko
Know there’s probably some people that aren’t “reptile lovers” but I always thought my little gecko looks like a muppet.
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#74 Local Animal Shelter Posted This Photo And I Immediately Applied To Adopt Her. I’ve Had Her For Two Months
She still does this on windows.
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#75 Wombats Are Cute, Derpy Wombats Are Even Cuter
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#76 Post Vet, Pre-Snack Face
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#77 Baby Otter Blep
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#78 All I Wanted Was A Nice Photo Of My Cat
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#79 Sid Had His Teeth Cleaned Today
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#80 This Expressive Zebra
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#81 She Is Beauty, She Is Grace
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#82 Funny Goat Face
We think that they are Nigerian Pygmy. The family that we got them from wasn’t exactly sure but that’s what we are going with.
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#83 Willow Looking Silly
She was scratching her shoulder. Their tongues are very rough, so they use them for getting at itches all the time.
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#84 My Cow, Cava
She’s very friendly and loves strokes (especially under the chin).
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#85 My Guinea Pig Cleaning Her Window
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#86 Today, I Met A Ridiculiously Not-Photogenic Goat
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#87 Everyone Meet Dolly, The Derpiest Of Llamas
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#88 This Is Chicken Parm. She Refuses To Let Me Take Photos Of The Other Chickens
She’ll make sure you can’t look at any other!
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#89 One Of The Orangutans At My Zoo Recently Had A Baby. Here He Is In All His Glory
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#90 This Is Lenny’s “I Smell Urine Face” Which He Only Makes When He Smells One Of The Other Animals’ Pee
I swear he goes right for it then looks up at me like this.
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#91 My Dog Is So Photogenic It’s A Wonder She Hasn’t Been Asked To Do An Iams Commercial Yet
This is our second Weim and they are the best! Although both of ours have had pretty bad anxiety problems. But they love to be outdoors and are super loyal and very smart. Plus you can’t beat these faces! This is Addy, and we adopted her about 5 months ago.
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#92 Made A New Friend Today… It’s Cute How Angry He Is
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#93 Little Man Got A New Toy
He was preoccupied with squeaking this thing when my partner called his name in a playful voice. We have no idea why he made this face but it made for a great laugh! We also can’t figure out what “breed” he is, if anyone can offer any insight just by looking at him. He’s massive for his age, almost 3.5 pounds! We love him.
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#94 Ov***ose At The Vet
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE It may sound silly, but when taking your ferret to the vet, ask the tech if they’re sure their dose calculations are correct. I took my boy in for a nail trim and distemper booster yesterday. They administered Benadryl 15 minutes before the booster. After the Benadryl, they brought him back to wait with me for the 15 minutes. 3 minutes later, the tech ran out to take him back to the Dr. He was supposed to receive 0.5ml of children’s Benadryl orally. He was injected with 1.5ml. I had to rush and drive him an hour away to the only emergency hospital that had room. He was crashing. They kept him overnight and I’m still waiting for an update. Please just ask them to confirm the dose. It can’t hurt anyone to ask. Please send good vibes to my little man, Buzz, that he pulls through.
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#95 The Look Of Joy On His Face
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#96 I Promise They’re Actually Best Friends
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#97 Boo Loves You
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#98 Rat Blep
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#99 It’s Called Fashion Look It Up
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#100 “Do You Got Games On Your Phone?”
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#101 Brand New Girl Takes Issue With Front Lawn
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#102 My Wife (Right ) Had A Moment With A Derpy Alpaca (Left)
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#103 Went To The Zoo. Saw A Camel
I was far enough away that he wouldn’t spit me.
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#104 Derpy Donkey Hugs
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#105 I Don’t Know Why She Does This Lip Thing
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#106 He Eats Kinda Funny
He was eating a rat and this pic was taken 3 years ago, he’s a pretty good weight atm and much longer now, big boy.
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#107 Nothing Better Than To Have This Stupid Face Greet You First Thing In The Morning
Caught Wayne mid yarn and the man looks possessed. He is off to go shake the lower branches of the apple trees and get some morning grub.
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#108 Snapping Turtle
I live on the water and every year we have Snapping, Painted & Map turtles coming up to lay their eggs in our gardens. It’s my favourite time of year!
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#109 Mid Sneeze
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#110 A Few Of Our Rats Being Derpfaces
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#111 How To Look Like A Wet Rat: Step 1 – Be Alfi. Step 2 – Done
He is a chihuahua, mini pinscher and pekingese mix.
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#112 Having A BBQ This Is Our View
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#113 Apparently Tard Is Retiring, I Present Angry Turtle
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#114 Not A Single Thought
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#115 Funny Guy
He kept trying to get in my lap and would do it until he laid down but he never lays down for more than a few minutes before he’s off doing the next thing.
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#116 Sleepy Ferret Blep
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#117 Naughty Turtle
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#118 Say Cheese
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