The Cuddliest & Cutest Animals
 | Koza, the lion cub was born and lived at the Wild Animal Park in Escondido, California. Koza lived together and played with a puppy named Cairo and gained widespread publicity. However, Koza was unfortunately mauled by an adult lioness, receiving three bites which severely damaged his spinal cord. The 5 month old cub was put down in the end. |
 | This baby gorilla, named Baina, was born April 8, 2005, to the world's first test tube gorilla, TIMU, who lost interest in her baby only seven hours after giving birth. Baina was raised in a nursery exhibit adjacent to the indoor gorilla exhibit so the smells and sights of gorillas were always familiar. Over several months, Baina was introduced to a new mother, Rosie. Eventually Baina was placed in the cage with Rosie, who quickly strolled over to the screaming baby and comforted her by coddling her on her chest. When Baina climbed too high on a fence, Rosie gently brought her down and placed the baby on her back and strutted away on all fours. |
 | Knut is a captive-born polar bear born at the Berlin Zoo on 5 December 2006. Rejected by his mother at birth, he was subsequently raised by zoo keepers. He was the first polar bear cub to survive past infancy at the Berlin Zoo in over thirty years. Knut became a popular tourist attraction and commercial success. |
 | Outside a polar bear den at the Denver Zoo, two tiny cubs were found just hours after they had been born and abandoned by their mother. The cubs were so chilled that thermometers did not show any body warmth at all. On that day, November 6, 1994, the zoo began its fight to save the twin cubs, Klondike and Snow. The young adult polar bears now live at Florida's Wild Arctic attraction. |
 | Dema, a Sumatran tiger licks Nia a baby orangutan in a nursery room at the Taman Safari zoo Wednesday Feb. 28, 2007, 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. |
 | THE Yangon Zoological Gardens is celebrating the birth of its first Bengal Tiger cubs in more than 16 years. Three cubs were born on March 17, but one was killed by its mother, Noah. |
 | Giant pandas play in a tree at the Research and Conservation Center for Giant Pandas in the Wolong Nature Reserve on March 6, 2007, in southwest China's Sichuan province. (ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images) |
 | The pika was named the second cutest endangered animal in North America in a recent World Wildlife Fund. This one is seen at Denali National Park in Alaska. The pika faces extinction as global warming is forcing the animals to move higher up in the mountains, leaving them with fewer housing options. (Roy Toft/National Geographic/Getty Images) |
 | The chimp lives primarily in West and Central Africa. Chimpanzees, along with gorillas and orangutans are the closest living relatives to humans. Our close cousins spend a lot of time in the wild learning all sorts of things from their mothers. For instance, chimps have learnt that termites attack anything that disturbs their nest. By inserting a twig into an opening of the nest, termites will crawl onto it. Pull out the twig and “lunch is served”! Baby chimps watch their mothers do this and thus also learn to fish for food in this way. |
 | If you ever get wild animal baby pictures of leopard on safari consider yourself extremely lucky. The mother leopard prefers to keep the cubs hidden as much as possible because they are vulnerable to predators especially when she goes on a hunting foray |
 | The White-tailed deer, also known as the Virginia deer, or simply as the whitetail, is a medium-sized deer found throughout most of the continental United States, southern Canada, Mexico, Central America, northern portions of South America as far south as Peru, and some countries in Europe. The species is absent from much of the western United States, including Nevada, Utah, and California (though its close relatives, the mule deer and black-tailed deer, can be found there). |
 | These cute little animals are an endangered species. Bilby's don't drink water, they get enough from the food they eat. They sleep during the day in deep burrows and forage at night and are found mostly throughout the arid, dry areas of Australia. |
 | The Ring-tailed Lemur is a relatively large prosimian and is found only on the island of Madagascar. Although threatened by habitat destruction and therefore listed as vulnerable, the Ring-tailed Lemur is the most populous lemur in zoos worldwide, with approximately 2000 in captivity. They reproduce readily in captivity and typically live up to 30 years (16 to 19 years in the wild). |
 | The Red Fox has the widest range of any terrestrial carnivore, being native to Canada, Alaska, almost all of the contiguous United States, Europe, North Africa and almost all of Asia, including Japan. As its name suggests, its fur is predominantly reddish-brown. |
 | Gibbons are small apes that occur in tropical and subtropical rainforests from northeast India to Indonesia and north to southern China, including the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Java. Gibbons are masters of swinging from branch to branch at distances of up to 50 ft and at speeds as much as 35 mph. They can also make leaps of up to 27 ft and can walk upright with their arms raised for balance. They are the fastest and most agile of all tree-dwelling, non-flying mammals. |
 | A black panther is a black color variant of one of several species of larger cat which are often known by the term panther. "Panther" in North America is most commonly used for the cougar (Puma) and in Latin America it is most often used to mean a jaguar and elsewhere in the world it usually refers to the leopard. |
 | The guenons live in Sub-Saharan Africa, and most are forest monkeys. Many of the species are quite local in their ranges, and some have even more local subspecies. Many are threatened or endangered because of habitat loss. |
 | The white lion is occasionally found in wildlife reserves in South Africa. White lions are not a separate subspecies and they have never been common in the wild. Regarded as divine by locals, white lions first came to public attention in the 1970s in Chris McBride's book The white lions of Timbavati |
 | The Little Penguin is the smallest species of penguin discovered so far. The penguin, which is about 16 in tall, is found on the coastlines of southern Australia and New Zealand, with possible records from Chile. They have several common names. In Australia, they are referred to as Fairy Penguins because of their tiny size. In New Zealand, they are called Little Blue Penguins, or just Blue Penguins. |
 | The cougar or puma, mountain lion, or panther, depending on region, is native to the Americas. This large, solitary cat has the greatest range of any wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere extending from Yukon in Canada to the southern Andes of South America. An adaptable species, the cougar is found in every major American habitat type. It is the second heaviest cat in the American continents after the jaguar and the fourth heaviest in the world. |
