Baby Animals
Monday, March 9th, 2009
A handout picture shows polar bear cub Flocke (snowflake) for the first time in her new outside enclosure, at the zoo in Nuremberg April 8, 2008. Flocke was separated from her mother Vera after officials at the Nuremberg zoo became concerned she might harm the cub.
Three baby meerkats cuddle in the cold at Bristol Zoo, April 4, 2008, in Bristol, England. The 4-week-old new arrivals — two boys and a girl — are being well looked after by four adult meerkats and are already proving a hit with visitors who can see them out in their enclosure more as the weather gets warmer. Meerkats are quite lively and sociable animals, carnivores and belong to the family of mongooses, but can only be found in Southern Africa.
A keeper holds one of five oriental small-clawed otter cubs after its first veterinary examination at the Veszprem Zoo, about 67 miles southwest of Budapest, Hungary. All five cubs born to 6-year-old Nora are female. The cubs are less than 8 inches and weigh less than 7.4 ounces.
A Biblical Zoo employee plays with Sylvester, an 8-week-old Sumatran tiger cub in Jerusalem Feb. 24, 2009. The zoo’s veterinarians have raised Sylvester, ever since his mother abandoned him. The Sumatran tiger is an endangered species, according to the zoo’s spokesperson, and there are only about 400 Sumatrans still living in the wild.
One-month-old elephant twins play around their mother’s leg at an elephant breeding center in Chitwan Dec. 6, 2008. The pair, born to a 30-year-old elephant, are Nepal’s first jumbo elephant twins. Authorities celebrate the twins as a conservation success, as elephants are protected by law in the Himalayan nation.
Molly, a 3-day-old baby giraffe, is bottle-fed by neonatal veterinarian technician Maggie Underwood at the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in North Grafton, Mass., Feb. 26, 2009. The female calf, at 5 feet tall and 86 pounds, is being nursed with cow’s milk because its mother cannot produce milk of her own. Molly was born at Southwick Zoo in nearby Mendon and is doing quite well, according to her caretakers, though she is still at risk for infection.
This baby male gorilla meets the press for the first time Feb. 12, 2009. He was born Dec. 8, 2008, at the San Francisco Zoo and now weighs 11.3 pounds. Have a good idea for his name? The zoo announced a global “Name the Baby” contest, as well as an online gift registry for its newest arrival. To participate, go to sfzoo.org. The zoo is hand-rearing the gorilla while training a female gorilla to be his surrogate mom, after the birth mother showed no interest in the newborn.
Zookeeper Renae Zammit holds Monifa, a 3-week-old pygmy hippopotamus, in her enclosure at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, Nov. 7, 2008. Monifa was born Oct. 15 after a difficult breech birth.
Nineteen-day-old male ox Heart, born with a heart-shaped marking on his forehead, relaxes at Yamakun Farm in Fujisawa, near Tokyo, Japan on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009. Farm owner Kazunori Yamazaki, 51, said, “Good timing for Valentine.”
A Red Panda cub born this year at Fuzhou Panda World pushes a toy cart on Sept. 10, 2008, in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China. Of the ten Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) cubs bred at the research center this year, including two sets of triplets and one pair of twins, the eight surviving cubs were shown to the public for the first time today.
A 4-week-old baby lion wanders around its enclosure with its mother at a zoo in the western German city of Dortmund Feb. 18, 2009. It has been two years since the zoo has experienced the birth of baby lions.
A baby koala clings to its mother’s back in the koala enclosure at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast, Friday, Sept. 26, 2008. It was national Save the Koala Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness about the dwindling numbers of the animal in the wild.
A Langur infant is seen in the zoo in Hanover, northern Germany, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009, where two Langurs were born during the last three weeks. Langurs predominantly feed leaves and the Hanover zoo freezes leaves in summer to feed to the Langurs during winter time.
A caregiver looks after twin giant panda cubs, the first twins delivered this year at the Bifengxia base of the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Yaan in Sichuan province, China, Oct. 24, 2008. Following the traditional Chinese custom, the center held a naming ceremony for the twin cubs 100 days after their birth. Thirteen giant pandas have been born at the base this year.
Three eleven week old Siberian Tiger cubs, Sayan, Altai, and Altay with mum Nika at Howletts Wild Animal Park in Bekesbourne, England, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008. Siberian tigers feature in the top 10 of the world’s most endangered creatures. The three cubs have been named after mountain ranges in Siberia.
