Zoo Babies

• A month-old hippopotamus calf is seen with its mother in a pond at the Nandankanan Zoological park in the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India, Aug.26.
  
  
  

  Biswaranjan Rout, AP

• The Siberian tiger cub, Antares, pops his head up above a beasket during his presentation to the media at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin, Aug. 5. The tiger baby was born on June 23.
  
  
  

  Markus Schreiber, AP

• One of five oriental small-clawed otter pubs, born a few days ago by six-year-old mother Nora, is held by a keeper during their first veterinary examination in the Veszprem Zoo Sept. 5 in Veszprem, which is southwest of Budapest, Hungary . All the five cubs are females.
  
  
  

  Lajos Nagy, MTI / AP

• Four giant panda cubs were born within 14 hours at a breeding center in southwest China, a mini baby boom for the rare animals, Xinhua News Agency reported July 28. A newborn panda cub is seen at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province.
  
  
  

  China Daily / Reuters

• A one-month-old Ferruginous Pygmy-owl, Glaucidium brasilianum, at the National Zoo in Managua, in the spring of 2008. The owl was brought to the zoo after its nest fell from a rotten branch at a construction site.
  
  
  

  Esteban Felix, AP

• Three-month-old African lion cub Chibi lays on a box at Safari Zoo in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia, in March, 2008. Chibi is one of three lion cubs which were newly born in the zoo.
  
  
  

  Firdia Lisnawati, AP

• The Polar bear cub "Wilbaer" plays in the outdoor enclosure in the zoo of Stuttgart, southern Germany, April 16, 2008 with mother Corinna. Zoo officials introduced Germany's latest polar bear cub Wednesday to the public.
  
  
  

  Daniel Maurer

• Qila, a beluga whale at the Vancouver Aquarium, swims with her new calf in Vancouver, British Columbia, in June, 2008.
  
  
  

  Jonathan Hayward, Canadian Press / AP

• A pony with her baby at Attica Zoological Park in Spata, near Athens, Greece, in April, 2008.
  
  
  

  Thanassis Stavrakis, AP

• The Galapagos tortoise, Nigrita, watches her cub in the zoo of Zurich, Switzerland, in March, 2008.
  
  
  

  Walter Bieri, Keystone / AP