baby animals

On January 7th an elephant calf was born at the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha, Nebraska. She was named Eugenia meaning “noble” or “well-born.”

A Louisiana man rescued a baby deer who had lost his mother from Hurricane Ida’s flood waters.

The Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts, celebrated a new birthday last month, welcoming a newborn sloth on July 31, the zoo announced on Monday.

Southwick’s Zoo’s newest addition is a pretty big baby. Dolly the giraffe was born two weeks ago, and at 6 feet tall and 150 pounds, she’s the largest of her species ever to be born in the history of the Mendon zoo. The zoo says Dolly is being fed with a bottle because her mother was unable to produce...

The six cubs were born at Chiba Zoological Park in June.

The baby seal was born on June 17 at Aquarium Umitamago in Japan.

In Tokyo, Japan, a baby raccoon tried to enter an art museum.

It’s a cuteness overload at Boston-area zoos this season.  Franklin Park Zoo in Boston recently welcomed two scaly-sided merganser ducklings, while Stone Zoo in Stoneham is now home to a prehensile-tailed porcupette according to Zoo New England. The scaly-sided merganser ducklings arrived in the spring and weigh just a quarter of a pound each. The fluffy-looking ducklings are members...

At Zoo Miami, cameras captured the first steps of a giraffe calf born on Friday.

Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo just named their new North American river otter pup, who was born on January 20.

The yet-to-be-named calf was the fourth born to 18-year-old “Bakhita” at a zoo in Southeastern Australia, as part of a conservation breeding program for the critically endangered black rhino.

8-month-old “Humphrey” is the first koala to be born at Taronga Zoo in over a year.