Your morning adorable: Ox born with heart-shaped marking

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Remember Heart-kun the chihuahua? Mickey Moo the cow?

Following in the footsteps of those other animals-with-unusual-markings who so captivated humankind comes Heart, an ox born with a prominent heart pattern on his forehead.

Heart lives at Yamakun farm in Fujisawa, near Tokyo. ‘Good timing for Valentine’s Day,’ was farm owner Kazunori Yamazaki’s comment to the Associated Press.

--Lindsay Barnett