Baby animals

Spring brings to mind rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection and regrowth. Check out this gallery of Associated Press photos of baby animals taken through the years.

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Fri., April 10, 2015

In this Jan. 22, 2015 photo, a gentoo penguin feeds its baby at Station Bernardo O'Higgins in Antarctica. "To understand many aspects in the diversity of animals and plants it's important to understand when continents disassembled," said Richard Spikings, a research geologist at the University of Geneva. "So we're also learning about the real antiquity of the Earth and how (continents) were configured together a billion years ago, half a billion years ago, 300 million years ago," he said, adding that the insights will help him understand Antarctica's key role in the jigsaw of ancient super continents.

Natacha Pisarenko Associated Press
French bulldog named Baby, left, attends the feeding of wild boar piglets at the Lehnitz animal sanctuary outside Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Six little pigs have found a new friend in a maternal French bulldog named Baby. The Lehnitz animal sanctuary outside Berlin says Baby took straight to the wild boar piglets when they were brought in Saturday, three days old and shivering from cold. Sanctuary worker Norbert Damm said Wednesday as soon as the furry striped piglets were brought in, Baby ran over and started snuggling them and keeping them warm, even though they're already about her size. He says the piglets' mother was likely killed by a hunter and the litter was found abandoned in a forest. The piglets are being bottlefed right now and should be released to an animal sanctuary when they can feed themselves in about three months.

Michael Sohn Associated Press
Baby elephant Uli resist the weigh in at the Zoo in Wuppertal, Germany, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011. Keepers of the Wuppertal Zoo have to count, measure and weigh the 4500 animals with 500 species yearly to see if they grow correctly and get enough food.

Frank Augstein Associated Press
A baby black howler monkey (Alouatta caraya) clings onto its mother's back on Thursday Jan. 29, 2009 in Singapore where its national zoo is actively involved in the conservation and education of wildlife reserves. Despite its name, only males are black while females and juveniles are brown. Young males attain their black pelage upon maturity. This is the loudest animal in the New World and the largest monkey that lives in the South American rainforests.

Wong Maye-E Associated Press
This Dec. 3, 2009 photo provided by the San Diego Zoo shows the newest baby to join the six Masai giraffes at the San Diego Zoo taking shelter under his mother's stomach at the San Diego Zoo. Although he's doing great now, San Diego Zoo animal care staff had been concerned before his birth. His mother, Nicky, was a first-time mom at 12, which is older than typical for a giraffe's first birth. She is about 2 feet shorter than the average female giraffe and also about 200 pounds lighter. Nicky went into labor on exhibit at 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 1. The calf was born as excited Zoo guests watched.

Photo Bohn San Diego Zoo
In this photo taken Aug. 7 2006 and made available Dec 21, 2007, the giant panda Qizhen cuddles her newly born baby Wushiyike, meaning 51 grams in Mandarin, at the Chengdu Giant Panda Reproduction and Research Center, Chengdu, China, 2006. Wushiyike, born at half the weight of most newborn pandas, is growing into a normal, healthy animal in southwest China, state media reported Thursday.
An albino baby kangaroo and its mother hop around their enclosure at the Enghave Animal & Nature Park in Broerup, 256 kms (159 miles) west of Denmark's capital Copenhagen Friday April 24, 2009. The albino Bennett kangaroo has been exploring the world outside its mother's pouch for about two weeks, one of the owners of the park said. Karina Christensen, who owns the park with Niels Christensen, added that the albino kangaroo has not been named yet, because its sex is still unknown. Its mother also has no name, but its grandmother was named Snow White, she said. Albino kangaroos are very rare, with only about 1 of every 10,000 kangaroos being born white, Karina Christensen said.

Holger Bundgaard Polfoto
Three meerkat cubs cuddle to an adult animal in their outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Erfurt, Germany, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. The meerkat babies were born on Feb. 21, 2014 at the zoo.

Jens Meyer Associated Press
A four-day old African spurred tortoise, Geochelone sulcata, one of eight babies, sunbathes on the head of its mother in their enclosure in Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Nyiregyhaza, 226 kms (140 miles) east of Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011.

Attila Balazs Mti