Tiger cubs played with chicks at a zoo in Wenling, China. The chicks, which were not harmed by the cubs, were feeding at a nearby river before entering the tigers' cage. It is the first time zoo staff have witnessed such an occurrence, China Daily reported.
(Reuters/China Daily)

Animal keeper Sabina Gloecknerova holds a 3-week-old male celebes crested macaque at the zoo in Decin, north of Prague. The baby ape, named Satu, was refused by his mother, and intensive human care for Satu is now inevitable.
(Libor Zavoral/AP Photo/CTK)

Two white lion cubs play inside a zoo in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, in northeast China. The cubs will be released back into the wild.
(Reuters/China Daily)

 

 

Five South African bat eared fox kits lounged outside their birthing den at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park. The kits were born in late April, but have only recently started making a public appearance outside the den.
(AP Photo/Ken Bohn)

A recently hatched Roti Island snake-necked turtle in San Diego. The snake-necked turtle, an endangered species, is the most geographically restricted of any turtle species, only inhabiting the southern part of Roti Island, a small Indonesian island.
(AP Photo/Ken Bohn)

Tai Shan, a giant panda cub at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, with his mother, Mei Xiang.
(AP Photo/Jessie Cohen)

Two critically endangered Visayan warty piglets enjoyed the sun at the San Diego Zoo.
(AP Photo/Ken Bohn)

Madras, a white tiger cub, and his sister, Taiga, played in a private zoo in Cremines, Switzerland.
(Reuters/Stephane Gerber)

Kijivu, a 15-year-old gorilla, rested with her newborn baby gorilla at a zoo in Prague.
(Reuters/Petr Josek)

Indah, an 8-week-old female binturong cub, explored her enclosure for the first time at the Wild Asia exhibit at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. The binturong, also known as a bear-cat is found in Southeast Asia, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
(Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

Peth, a one-month-old albino common barking deer, romped near an older male deer at the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok. Albino deer are considered rare in Thailand.
(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Male African lion cubs Panji (left) and Gina are seen at a zoo in Gianyar, Bali.
(AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

A 6 1/2-week-old lion cub climbed on a stump during its debut at the Budapest Zoo and Botanic Garden.
(Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images)

A baby Grevy's zebra (left) named Johari, nuzzles up to his mother at the Cincinnati Zoo. The endangered Grevy's zebra is native to eastern Africa.
(AP Photo/Tom Uhlman)

A yet nameless elephant baby has his first public appearance at the zoo in Berlin. The little bull was born by his mother Pori, watched by zoo visitors, and had a weight of 258.4 pounds and was 35.8 inches high.
(AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

A worker from Rome's Biopark zoo holds a Testudo Kleinmanni hatchling, an endangered species also known as an Egyptian tortoise, in Rome.
(Reuters/Tony Gentile)

Canela, a 2-month-old baby vicuna, stands with other vicunas at the Parque de Las Leyendas Zoo in Lima.
(Reuters/Enrique Castro-Mendivil)

A golden monkey feeds its baby watermelon at a zoo in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province.
(AP Photo/Lu Chuanquan)

Thirteen-year-old lioness Stella watches over her 6-week-old cub at the al Maglio zoo in Magliaso in southern Switzerland.
(Reuters/Remy Steinegger )

A spring hare eats a piece of bread next to its baby at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo. Spring hares, which live in eastern and southern Africa, can make leaps of 20 to 30 feet with their powerful hind legs.
(Reuters/Yuriko Nakao)

A Jaguar cub stands next to its mother Kiara in an enclosure at the Berlin zoo.
(Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann)

A French bulldog plays with a 2-week-old baby Bengal tiger, which was rejected by its mother, at Shirotori zoo in Higashikagawa, southwestern Japan. The dog is nursing the baby tiger as if it were its true mother, according to the zoo.
(Reuters/Yuriko Nakao)

An Indian rhino walks with his mother, Ella, at the Bronx Zoo in New York City.
(AP Photo/Julie Larsen Maher)

new giraffe calf licks its nose in the giraffe barn in Providence, R.I. The zoo welcomed the sizable bundle when Sukari, one of the zoo's two female giraffes, delivered a calf. This is the fifth giraffe birth at the zoo in the last 10 years.
(AP Photo/Victoria Arocho)

A Bornean sun bear cub, Bulan, searches for treats hidden by her keepers in shredded paper. The bears are conservation dependent due to habitat loss and human encroachment.
(Ken Bohn/AFP/Getty Images)

A 4-month-old polar bear cub cuddles next to his 22-year-old mother Arki at suburban Chicago's Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. The cub is the fifth born to the mother.
(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

A rare baby Arakan forest turtle is shown at Zoo Atlanta in Atlanta. The zoo is the only facility in the world successfully breeding the Arakan forest turtle, which is on the list of the world's most critically endangered species.
(AP Photo/Gene Blythe)

Emi, a Sumatran rhino, eats bananas as her newborn baby boy stays close by at the Cincinnati Zoo. The baby is the third young to be born in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
(AP Photo/Tom Uhlman)

Two baby Canada geese team up to look both ways before crossing the path at the Phoenix Zoo.
(AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

Baby orangutan Kasih walks through a pizza box after enjoying the snack of vegetables inside at the Phoenix Zoo.
(AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

Barraca (left) a lowland gorilla toddler, joins his reclining mother, Imani, at the Congo Gorilla Forest habitat at the Bronx Zoo in New York City.
(AP Photo/Julie Larsen Maher)

Baby Bactrian camel, Genghis, stands with his mother, Edina (not pictured) at Twycross Zoo, Atherstone, England. There are fewer than 1,000 Bactrian camels, which are native to the steppes of eastern Asia, left in the wild.
(AP Photo/Simon Dawson)

Kangaroo joeys peek out from their mothers pouch at the Zoo in Hanover, Germany. Mother Naddel gave birth to her twins about six months ago.
(Reuters/Christian Charisius)

This baby Baird's tapir was born at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston in March 2007. The zoo held a naming contest for the little tyke, and received more than 1,200 entries. "Seamus" won the day, in honor of his being born the day before St. Patrick's Day. Other contenders included "Nosy," "Stripes," "Franklin," "Spot," and "Snuffleupagus."
(Mark Wilson / Globe Staff)

Dema, a Sumatran tiger, licks Nia, a baby orangutan, in a nursery room at the Taman Safari Zoo in Bogor, Indonesia. The tiger and orangutan baby, which would never be together in the wild, have become inseparable playmates after they were abandoned by their mothers.
(Achmad Ibrahim/AP photo)

Two young giant otters (left) born this winter, swim with an adult (at right) at the Philadelphia Zoo.
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

A staff member examines a newborn golden coin box turtle at the Chester Zoo in Chester, England. The baby, one of three born at the zoo, is the first of the critically endangered species ever to hatch in the United Kingdom.
(Reuters/Phil Noble)

A tiny infant veiled chameleon, Chamaeleo calyptratus, climbs the finger of a keeper in the zoo of Debrecen, Hungary. This is the first time this species of raptors successfully propagated themselves in this zoo. Baby chameleons hatched out of 23 of the 40 eggs laid by their mother.
(AP Photo/MTI, Tibor Olah)

A one-day-old African elephant calf peeks out from underneath his mother's legs at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park Monda. The male calf, the first of three African elephant calves expected in 2007 at the park, was born on March 11. The mother, Litsemba, was one of seven African elephants rescued by the park in August 2003, when officials in Swaziland's Big Game Parks felt they had two options, kill a number of their elephants or export them to a zoo willing to care for the pachyderms.
(Ken Bohn/AP Photo/San Diego Zoo)

baby spectacled owl rests on a towel under a heat lamp at the Birmingham Zoo. The owlet, hatched a week earlier, is being kept indoors to escape the cold weather. Its eyes are not open yet. The spectacled owl gets the name because of black markings around the eyes that resemble spectacles, but the markings haven't developed on this owlet yet.
(Mark Almond/AP Photo/The Birmingham News)

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