Pictured: Baby hippopotamus swimming. Europics/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: epphotos002971
Everybody thinks that their baby is the cutest. And granted there are some exceptional looking newborns out there, but in reality most human babies look a lot like aliens. Adorable aliens, but nonetheless E.T. like beings. However, with baby animals, there is never one that you don’t want to just scoop up and take home. Baby animals, much like human babies, make funny faces, are a little wobbly on their feet, and sleep a lot. But with animals you get a lot more fur, feathers, licking and not as much of that incessant crying.
The Zoo Borns website showcases the world’s “newest and cutest exotic baby animals from zoos and aquariums.” They have articles and videos of some of the animals we fear before they become dangerous. Can you imagine tickling the tummy of a full grown Leopard and having the giant cat like it, let alone let you approach it and touch it? Probably not, but with a tiny baby leopard, it’s totally possible!
Luckily at Newscom we have some of the most adorable images of baby animals. So check out these images and more we have back at Newscom!
Giraffe mother Rahima licks her newborn still unnamed male baby, 10 January 2008 at the zoo in Dortmund, where it was born on 07 January 2008. MICHAEL GOTTSCHALK/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: afplivetwo322975
Do you think animals get embarrassed by their parents the way we do?
A pup harp seal rests on the ice floes on March 3, 2008, off the coast of the Magdalen Islands, Quebec. DAVID BOILY/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: afplivetwo386913
This is what I mean by baby anythings sleep all the time.
Baby raccoons in tree cavity. Adam Jones / DanitaDelimont.com “Danita Delimont Photography”/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: ddpphotos176192
All babies are just a little bit curious.
Three-month-old lion cub Chase – who has been hand-reared by two small children in their house in New Zealand. Oscar Kornyei/Splash News/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: spnphotostwo914093
The ultimate in relaxation.
A tiny baby veiled chameleon, Chamaeleo calyptratus, sticks to a pencil in the zoo of Debrecen, 245 kms east of Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, 25 March 2007. TIBOR OLAH/EPA/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: epaphotostwo199322
Ok, so maybe this little guy doesn’t so much look like a baby as he does a very old man…
Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri), chick, Snow Hill Island, Weddell Sea, Antarctica, Polar Regions. Thorsten Milse/Robert Harding/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: rhphotos138201
Domestic Pig, Huellhorst, Germany. Thorsten Milse/Robert Harding/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: rhphotos120508
You may also be interested in these other animal related posts on FocalPoint:
The Animals of Yellowstone National Park
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