Baby animals

Pssst! "Baby Animals: Heritage Breeds at the Banke” returns to Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth April 22-30.

 PROVIDED BY STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM
Feeding time

Cuteness takes over at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth when “Baby Animals: Heritage Breeds at the Banke” returns for a nine-day run.

During a nine-day stretch every spring, people of all ages turn into puddles of mush, giggling and baby-talking against a chorus of bleats, chirps, quacks and snorts on the grounds of Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth.

It’s an involuntary reaction when taking in “Baby Animals: Heritage Breeds at the Banke.” It may be a lesson in agriculture, but it frequently causes humans to communicate via squeals of excitement.

Peanut-sized view

Peanut stares out at the grownups at Buckhill Homestead Farm in Westminster, Mass., one of the sites bringing animals to the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth for the “Baby Animals: Heritage Breeds at the Banke” series of events April 22-30.