Meet the new pride and joy of the Prague Zoo, one of two Rothschild giraffes born this month, via the Internet Center for the Study of Baby Animal Cuteness, ZooBorns.
Did you know Newt Gingrich, for all his talk of forcing poor children to swab out the toilets in their government schools, is really just a big ol' softie? It's true -- Newt loves cute, fuzzy animals, and they love him back! Pets With Newt 2012. Oddly enough, there doesn't seem to be ...
Born November 13 at a Tel Aviv zoo, this ungainly yet astoundingly cute baby is named Dolittle. (Via ZooBorns.) Click to embiggen
Here's some amazing footage from the "Eyes on Leuser" project, condensed from a month's worth of recordings from video cameras placed in northern Indonesia's mountain jungles.
It's been a little while since we last visited the Internet Center for Advanced Studies of Baby Animal Cuteness, Zooborns, so I think it's time for a couple of photos of the first-ever rare Pallas's Cats born via artificial insemination, at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden: First Ever Birth ...
Blame Zooborns for the following overdose of cuteness.
Apex predators have the cutest babies. (Via Zooborns, of course.)
From Zooborns, the Houston Zoo's latest addition is a one-month old orangutan.
Perhaps the best picture to sum up the week, from the Internet Center for the Study of Mind-Bogglingly Cute Animals, ZooBorns. Click for another pic And if you need a Christmas gift for a kid in your family, you cannot possibly go wrong with the new book by Zooborns founders Andrew Bleiman ...
When the news slows down, it’s time for Zoo Krefeld’s baby rhino! [Video] (Hat tip: ZooBorns.)
Open thread, with baby sloths at the Sloth Sanctuary. Cuteness guaranteed. [Video] (Hat tip: Zooborns.)
And now for a pig rodeo! (I’ve spent a lot of time in Japan, and really love the country and the people. However, no one can deny that in some ways, the Japanese are a little ... odd. And I mean that as a compliment.) [Video]
And now, it’s time for a baby elephant playing with a big blue ball! [Video] (Hat tip: ZooBorns.)
It’s been one of those lizard vs. lizard kind of days... [Video]
Our shameless baby animal post of the day is from the Tama Zoo in Tokyo, via the Internet Center for the Study of Non-Human Cuteness, ZooBorns.
The masters at Worth1000.com demonstrate their mad photoshop skillz again in a contest called Jive Critters 4.
This Sumatran Orangutan inflicts its ineffable cuteness upon you, courtesy of ZooBorns.
So, you’re a bat. You’re just flappin’ around some Mayan ruins, looking for bugs to eat, and suddenly — the bat falcon! Now, you’re an ex-bat. [Video]
From the children’s zoo at Zoo Basel, the inexorable mini-schwein. (Hat tip: ZooBorns.)
Despite the feng shui expert, they’ve taken the monkeys off the table. LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Zoo may have the nation’s only monkey lair approved by a feng shui expert. There’s only one problem: No monkeys. The city spent $7.4 million building the China-themed primate enclosure — complete ...
Courtesy of the Internet Center for the Study of Infant Animal Cuteness, ZooBorns.
A little joey, accidentally ejected from Mom’s pouch at the Assiniboine Park Zoo. From the Internet Center for the Study of Insanely Cute Baby Animals, Zooborns.
For Mother’s Day tomorrow, the National Geographic Channel has a fascinating show in the works, titled In The Womb: Extreme Animals, exploring the reproduction of four different animals with real-time 4D ultrasound images. Here’s a video clip of the section dealing with a penguin fetus and its extraordinary method of ...